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Max and Karl,The Dotherite's prediction proves true. The rest of his community are willing to give up some of the donated food for Max, Karl, and Helmut - they are also effusively grateful to the three dreamers for being willing to help in this quest - and it does indeed appear that most were unaware of the preceding kidnapping plot. After a short while, one of the Dotherite's colleagues comes to say the ship is ready, and you're all led there. The ship is small and the six Dotherite men appear to be enough to sail it by themselves. It's two-masted, with lines low to the water, and space below decks where the supplies are stored and half the crew sleep at a time. There's a built up cabin at the stern, which is set aside for you - it's cramped, but you can all fit - there are three cots, but it appears two of them are hasty additions, as only one is bolted to the floor. The physicist in Karl finds himself very much hoping you don't run into a storm. As you cast off, the water is that inky shade of blue the Mediterranean sometimes takes on, the one the Greeks called wine-dark. The docks of Hlanith recede from view remarkably quickly, far more so than the speed you're travelling should indicate. The pale streaks across the sky gradually turn golden, the black expanse between them filling with blue - none of you consciously see the moment it changes, but in time the Sun is up in a normal sky, its reflected light making the dark water glitter. At some point during the voyage, each of wakes up back in Berlin, though you all have the sense in your mind that the journey is still happening, and when you next dream, you will find yourselves still upon it.

Alex,When you Elise, Friede and Louis find yourselves back on the streets of Hlanith, the pale streaks in the sky are darkening again, as if for evening, though it's many hours too soon for that to be happening. You can hear the distant sound of what appears to be cars, although you heard nothing of the kind earlier, and the dockside streets retain their mediaeval character. As you walk, one by one each of Louis, Friede and Elsie disappear from sight, and then you awaken to a Berlin morning.