The Bird of the River

Matilda kept watching this whole thing unfold before her eyes. She let someone else take Mattie to ensure she's okay and we'll rested. Harrow didn't want to feel too awkward as it seemed that they knew each other still.

"I'll wait here on deck. I think I've worked out my part of the whisper. I just need to try and work out the rest. If you need me I'll come find you all" Harrow says to them before they leave trying to make her new voice sound like they know what they're talking about. In reality she wanted to keep watching Alicia some more and maybe to ask for guidance on it all.

Mattie is back up on the deck and she feels slightly bad about slapping Kiami/Terra but she really didn't want to be separated from her brother or the group. It just wasn't going to bode well in her mind. Regardless of how small the ship might be.

She looked up at the spirit again. "We will call you back when we arrive. Thank you for your help." she smiles brightly at the woman and then sits down near where she was before. "Who has her coin? I want to put it back with the others." she adds.

Alicia smiles, "May I try to put one on?"

Caleb tilted his head as he took in the scene before him. His face scrunched up into a questioning look,
'How de feck did I get here?' looking at the people before him he smiled and spoke again,
'Whatta 'bout ye? Could any of you kind folks tell me hwo de hell I got here? and who the feck is Dmitry?'
He looked about and smiled at them all a wide infectious grin splitting his lips.

Alicia allows Harrow to put the necklace around her neck. The necklace she attempts to put on turns to dust. "Oh my, oh no! I don't know what has happened!" Alicia looks distraught, looking at Harrow. "Is this supposed to happen?!"

She looks horrified and starts to run for the railing of the vessel in total panic. She starts to climb overboard, trying to get away from the other necklaces.

Before Caleb could answer the familiar young woman, another woman ran past him in blind panic looking like she was going to throw herself from the ship.
He moved quickly and wrestled her to the ground, holding her there he could see the madness in her eyes.
Looking around he spoke,
'Anyone got any rope?'

There was indeed rope piles everywhere on the ship. Alicia continues to babble about not wanting to turn to dust!

Caleb looks at the young woman handing him the rope and calling him Dmitry.
'Tanks darlin', but I have no feckin' idea who Dmitry is!'

Matilda catches up to Alicia and tries to think of a way to calm her down she moves slowly but keeping a respectable distance from her.

"Alicia. I am sorry about what happened when we tried to put the necklace in but please let me help you find out what happened. You did nothing wrong" she paused for a moment before adding "let me help you please Alicia"

She waits to see what happens.

Caleb had been in the middle of restraining the woman when another came and began talking to her. There was something strangly familiar about this newcomer also.

Looking back at the girl that called him Dmitry he smiled,
'I'm Caleb Molloy, nice to meet ya, you are?'

Mattie's eyes grew quite large as she looked at him. "Seriously?! The same from Central park?" she seemed quite suddenly excited all over again.

"It's me, Mattie! I had a kitten with me remember!?! Teagan's daughter!" she was quite shocked that he showed up here to be honest but at least she knew who he was.

Matilda stays close to Alicia and takes her hand for a few moments trying to show that she cares. "We will try and make it to Bethmoora and I'll stay close with you. Just relax" and she lets go of her hand.

She hears the others speaking and she thinks that she heard a name she knew. "Don't be silly Harrow. You're hearing things. It ain't him" she says to herself.

Mattie grinned brightly. "Well some how we are all in the dreaming realm. Hypnos. I'm not sure how any of us got here. None of us. We just sort of floated here from our dreams. But Dristan was with us, my dad. Then he disappeared and Dmitry showed up. Then somehow we all were changed into different bodies by Hypnos and Dmitry had that body. Dmitry is my brother. He wad adopted by mom and dad also." she took a breath and smiled leaning back against the side of the boat.

She was quite banged up still and her head hurt. "At some point we got more knowledge in our heads, then we had to make a choice between saving dreamers or people back from our world. We all voted dreamers because when they die, they die in the real world also."

"We all got riddles to help us along Kiami, err Terra now since she went into a malecs body wrote them all down. Jeremy got a book with knowledge and maps and Jillian had been helping with those. Liliana got a bag also but I'm not sure what is in it. And Matilda...er Harrow..she is in a male body now but she has necklaces and well we have to free Bethmoora who is city but a spirit also, held by some emperor."

Then she looked up at the spirit or where rhe spirit had been. "Ah well there was a really tall spirit lady spirit here. She wad the spirit of Babylon. She was summoned when I put two old coins together but we need her and the rest of the spirits to be with us to help wake Bethmoora up and we still have no idea who the emperor is or who is killing dreamers." she took another long breath.

"I think that covers most of it." she shrugs. "If I missed anything someone could fill you in on the rest."

Jillian had been watching everything in mild bewilderment and keeping out of the trouble. Mattie was back to her old self and more important people had dealt with Babylon, those were the important things. She had no idea what had gone on with Dimitry, nor who whoever it was now residing in that dream form was. Dream form, that was how she was rationalising all of this. They weren't in bodies, they were in dream constructs or forms, which easily explains how this Hypnos person could reform them so easily. It just made sense.

Unsure what else to do, she walks over to the captain and accepts the coin from him while muttering her apologies for what had happened. At least his journey was sped along, so she hoped he wouldn't be mad. As soon as she has the coin she examines it, curious as to its glow.