One glance at Salima's face where excitement was blooming, told them that something unusual was happening. And that it probably wasn't anything bad, despite the worsening state of their creator. The grain of new hope that perhaps not everything was lost was soon sown into their hearts at their friend's words. She came to them in hurry, with her beautiful black hair flowing behind her, so similar to the one of her younger counterpart created by the sleeping mind of Mr. Barrie. Although unlike her, she didn't plait it into two braids, but left it tangled, as if the woman didn't have enough time to comb it or as if she tousled as a means to vent her frustration in dealing with some difficult problem. Any attentive observer would notice that the pretty dark face of the Pakistani doctor had this same expression that appears on the faces of people who have just came across something far beyond their usual experiences. Either it is something scary or really positive but which was the case now? It was time for the Neverland exiles to find out what emotions hid behind the excitement in Salima's voice.

They were walking as fast as they could towards the hospital now, led by Dr. Junaid, even though it was quite close to her home. Despite their pace, they had enough time to take a look at the world which was stretching out before their amazed eyes such as the cars and the strange clothes that were in fashion now.

Slightly, the twins, Cubby, Tootles and Wendy brought up the rear of the procession, so that the boys were in some sense between their two "mothers". None of them ever knew their real mothers so they clang to the closest females willing to act as ones. To Wendy who wasn't much older than they, actually much too young to be anybody's real mother, had taken the maternal role on after she was swept away from London. And to Dr. Junaid who was the basis of their other female friend, the now ill Tiger Lily, was created.

They didn't need to change their animal skin clothes because they already had replaced them with the clothes that used to belong to Salima's brother. They knew that a group of children dressed in animal skins would make a strange impression on the people from the hospital who had seen them, Salima didn't need to tell them this. Since they looked perfectly normal, their behavior had to be normal and not raising any suspicion as well. During the walk to the hospital, their "mothers" had explained to the boys from Neverland how they should behave while in the hospital and what they should say to any person who happened to talk with them.

They were to pretend Mr. Barrie's young relatives, wanting to see their dying great great uncle one more time before his passing. Luckily there weren't too many of them – the rest were lying in beds - so the children could pretend to be a group of siblings so in this sense, the more proper name for their "great great uncle" of this degree of consanguinity seemed to be "father". Mainly, due to their companions' "illness" the group was reduced to just six children – Slightly, the twins, Cubby, Tootles and Wendy. And it was a good thing that such big families weren't anything suspicious. Maybe they weren't as often as in Wendy's time (though that wasn't the time from which Mr. Barrie came from; he was born two decades later but for some reason his sleeping mind came to the conclusion that the time of the early 20th century suited his tastes more than more modern times) but the hospital workers wouldn't be very surprised having seen this group, as they would have been if they had seen all of the children who had arrived from the dying Neverland. Wendy had offered she could stay with their ill friends but Salima had already informed Mr. James Stuart who also lived near the hospital that she were to take the children who had managed to stay healthy to see Jimmy so it was he who would stay with them.

Salima told the diminished group of six children about her plan. If asked by anyone – and it would happen for sure, as she told her workmates that she would bring them – they were to make themselves out to be Mr. Barrie's family members. They were to tell that they were left with Miss Junaid by their parents who were friends with her. She even invented new names for them – but for Wendy who was very surprised that her name, so unique in 1904, the year from which she was taken by Peter Pan was now relatively popular. But the rest of the children had to stick to the names Salima proposed to them. Their own names, given to them by Peter when he found them, weren't ordinary names. They weren't even names at all. Slightly? But slightly what? Cubby? Why is this boy named like a small secluded room? Tootles? No, they had to have new names they could use if they had to introduce themselves to Salima's workmates. New names and new ages since none of them knew their own age as the time in Neverland passed differently than the real world. In this way the twins got the names Johnny and Dave and their age regardless of how old they could be, from now on were nine. They at least looked around this age – nine or ten, just a bit younger than Wendy who was eleven, the same as Jimmy when he had had his accident.

Slightly, who didn't know his age either but was to claim from now on, if asked, that he was ten and his name was Kevin. Cubby was eight and his name – in the version delivered by Salima – was now Chris. Tootles, the youngest one was a boy of six and was not named Tootles any more – he was to be known under the name of Mike. Such precautions were making them believable in the eyes of the doctors taking care of James Barrie. Typically children weren't allowed to visit so ill patients but this time an exception was made due to who the patient they were to visit was.

Salima didn't want to tell them what was happening, only telling them that they "would see it themselves" so they had to believe her. They would see it when they were left with their relative to tell him their last farewell. Salima settled it with the doctors. But what was her aim?

Salima Junaid spent many an hour at the feet of the simple, white colored hospital bed, looking at the sleeping man, wondering if he too was leading any sort of mental life in the world conjured up by his own imagination, like she did, so many years ago, when she was hit on the head. Being born many years after his accident, when he was already an adult man, old enough to be her grandparent she couldn't remember his being a patient of their hospital from the very beginning but she often wondered if he too could develop his secret life inside his own head as she did so many years ago. She remembered it very well, however for many years she never uttered a word about it to anybody. Not even Dr Kimball, her good friend from the hospital, who though shared the dreams about his being a little boy on a distant magical island with her. Not even now. The only person with whom the woman shared the whole truth about the Lost Boys was Mr. Stuart, the elderly man sharing the same first name and the same fate with Jimmy.

Even if he had lived an ordinary life while James Barrie slept his whole life, creating his alter ego – a young boy who could spend his whole life on pleasures unlike his alternative version confined to bed, their fates were intertwined. He deserved the truth, being an old man now, like Jimmy who never really became James. And who was now dying – even if his death wasn't going to take place very soon, like in a couple of days, he was dying in his hospital room. That's why all those mysterious phenomena had started to happen. Nurses would be afraid to enter his room but Salima wasn't. During the last two days she spent in Barrie's room, she was a witness to some phenomena she was now going to show to the Neverland exiles.

The fog portal.

Just like the one through which her little friends had arrived into her world. The hypno-portals. She had to turn her eyes back to avoid getting sucked into one. The woman had a feeling she had to enter the portal, as if something was calling her name, deep inside her mind, persuading her into coming through the strange blue fog. She managed to overcome this feeling, as hard as it was but she did it, yes – but not before she turned her eyes back, avoiding in this way getting sucked into the portal, she looked at it. And saw something inside it. Something which she didn't expect to see.

And now she was going to show it to the Neverland children.