Hi guys! It's me, Dyphen, back here again. Sorry this one's taken so long, I've had loads of homework and that's sorta been my priority. Anyway, hope you enjoy ch8!

I'll be completely honest… I didn't like Metalbeard that much. He shouted a lot. And he was really tall. And I think I heard his 'Tale of Woe' about ten times, and that was only the first day on his ship. Dad got on really well with him, and he was really all I cared about at that moment, apart from getting to Mom.

Benny was there too. He said he'd built a spaceship just to come. I think that made Dad feel happy, but then again, Benny just loves spaceships. He'd been quite useful recently, as we'd started the Space topic in Science just before half-term.

It was early evening, and the ship had stopped for the night. Me and Benny were sitting in my cabin on Metalbeard's ship while Dad was talking to Metalbeard. Benny was leaning against the wall reading a book from my bag titled 'George's Secret Key to The Universe', and I was lying a few feet away, doodling a picture of what I thought Dad would look like if he messed up his hair. It looked kinda funny, and I internalised a giggle; imagine if he actually looked like that! Benny looked over at my doodles and shoved my shoulder gently.

"I didn't know you knew about Rex?" He grinned at me.

I frowned. "Who's Rex?"

Benny froze a second. "You don't… wait a minute." He pushed himself to his feet, walked over to the door and shouted, "EMMET?"

I could just make out Dad say "Yeah?" lazily back.

"CAN YOU C'MERE FOR A BIT?"

"Yeah, sure!" I could hear footsteps come closer, and I flipped to the next page in my notebook. I started to draw myself, but rather, what I'd like to look like. I don't really like the way I look, so I decided to give myself longer hair, and I cut out the freckles. I don't like my freckles. I can sketch pretty quickly, and draw cartoons quite well, even though I'm not good at art Art, like still lifes. I don't know where this skill came from, I'll be honest. I guess you could say I'm good at the Arts, in general.

I kind of got a bit lost in sketching, and I didn't notice Dad kneeling next to me.

"Wow, that's really good," he murmured softly. "Can you show me any others you've done?"

I flipped back to the page before and this time Dad froze.

I hesitated, before saying, "I sorta know who Rex is, a little bit. I mean, I probably do know who he is, just not by name, y'know, but you can tell me who he is. If you'd like, I guess."

Dad wavered, thinking something through. Then, in one long fluid motion, he stood back up, grabbed my phone from the table nearby ad unlocked it using my super-secret pattern that took me an entire day to come up with, all with me gaping at him.

"I didn't know you knew my phone pattern," I said accusingly.

"I'm your Dad," he said, not looking at me while he navigated his way through my phone, "I know everything."

He finally found what he was looking for, and showed me the screen. It was his Wikipedia page.

"That's me, yeah?" he asked. I nodded, confused.

"Why are you showing me your Wikipedia page?"

"Just look at the picture, Summer."

"You're right in front of me- "

"That's not the point." He interrupted, and Benny stifled a giggle. Dad turned around. "Really, Benny?"

Benny stuttered out an apology, before bursting into a fit of laughter. I smiled.

"Get back on track, Summer," Dad said, and I zoned back in.

Dad scrolled a little down the page until he saw something and tapped on it. Then, after a few seconds, he mumbled under his breath, "Thank the Man Upstairs for 4G."

"My 4G," I reminded him, conscious of it running out.

"I'll pay for it sorry," he muttered,

Suddenly, he shoved the phone into my lap. "Here you go. Can you tell who that is?"

It was… a guy. He had scruffy hair, stubble, thick eyebrows, stubble, that sort of thing. He was smirking at the camera, looking real smug. I shivered; my doodle did look scarily similar.

"I'm guessing that this is Rex?" I said to the room, more of a rhetorical question. Dad nodded.

"Yeah. That's Rex.

Dad sighed, then proceeded to tell me all about Rex. However, I won't tell you all the details, as it took him 20 minutes to explain it to me, so… yeah.

"Wow," I whispered, kind of stunned. "So you're…"

Dad shook his head. Obviously, I'm fine, it was Rex who was a bit…" he motioned something with his hands around his head. "…eh."

He looked at his watch.

"Oh geez, you gotta get some sleep, Summer."

I groaned. "Reeeeaaallyyy?"

He laughed. "Yes, really. Now get into bed."

I jumped up, walked over to the hammock thing I had to sleep in, and hopped in.

Benny walked over. "Night, Summer," he mumbled, giving me a hug. I smiled.

"See you in the morning," I answered as he walked out the door.

Now Dad came over. He sat lightly on the edge of the hammock so I wouldn't topple out.

"I know it's unlikely, but if you get another vision, or anything about Lucy at all, even if it's at 3 in the morning, you have to tell me. And you can even wake me up if it's just a bad dream. Got it?"

I nodded. "Got it."

He grinned. "Love you, Summer. Night." He kissed my forehead, then walked out of the room. He waved as he left. I lifted my hand and smiled weakly, already drifting off.

I had a feeling I wouldn't go dreamless tonight, but I didn't have long to contemplate that before I feel out of consciousness for the second time that day.