You're now Tim, while you're not busy being a fucking mechanical genius for your team, you enjoy staying in your room and not doing shit. The only reason you work on the ship is because you are the only one who knows anything about machines other than how to put tab B into slot A.

With your mission to get the ship closer to the speed of light rewarded by success and a free chance to sleep, you decide to rest.

You "awake" inside the dream bubble. Cherry refuses to open the ship when your're inside one of these things in order to avoid being stuck in it while the ship moves on. You begin to walk and take in the memory of your old house. You're interrupted by the sound of voices. You enjoy talking to the ghosts so you go to take a look.

As you look you see a young man around the age of fifteen, maybe sixteen. He sits across from an older man, around his thirties. You listen in on their conversation.

"I'm waiting for someone else to arrive." The young one says

"Oh?" The old man says, "One of your friends, I assume."

"Yeah," The young one continues "Keep an eye out for a short guy with glasses."

As if on cue, a short boy with glasses appears.

"Hey." The tall boy says.

"Hello, nerd." The short boy says.

"Hello, I am Grimm." Says the man.

"I'm Jon." Says the short one.

"It's nice to meet you, but three is a crowd, so I'll be leaving." The man says.

Without the chance for a word from either, the man known as Grimm disappears.

"Well that meeting was very short." Says the tall one.

"Yeah, why did you bring me to meet a guy who's gonna leave immediately?" Says the Jon one.

"I didn't know he would pull some shit like that." Says the tall one.

At this moment you decide to be introduce yourself to the ghosts.

"Hello," You say, "I'm Tim."

"Hello, you're not dead." Says the tall one.

At this moment you notice that the two have pupils and irises. They're very much alive.

"Who are you?" Says the Jon one.

"I just said, I'm Tim." You answer, "Are you two from the session we're approaching?"

"What?" The Jon one asks.

At this moment the tall one pulls an unexpected move and a rifle appears in his hand. He then shoots his friend in the face.

"Sorry, but I'm not too sure about letting my team know about the whole other team coming to our session yet. They have too much on their minds at the moment anyway."

"Well who are you?"

"I'm Brandon. Now, how about a change of scenery?"

With this a bubble appears and he jumps in. Into the rabbit hole, Alice.

You arrive at a house, you look around the foyer and see a living room in front of you, a walkway above, and a dining room to the right. Brandon sits in a chair at the dining table. You take the seat across from him.

"Why are you coming to our session?" Brandon asks.

"Our leader is looking for her father." You answer.

"So I'm assuming that this girl—Cherry—is your leader?"

"How did you know her name?" You ask, worried about what else he knows.

"Let's just say I've met her father."

"So he is here?"

"Both yes, and no." He says, as if it answers your question.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Can you keep a secret from her?"

"Yeah, I'm probably the only one on the ship who can."

"Alright...he's dead."

"WHAT?!" You say in shock from this revelation. To think your whole journey was a waste.

"He's quite dead."

"She's not gonna be happy to learn this!"

"Which is exactly why she can't."

"So what should I do? Just go around acting like I don't know her father is dead?"

"Yeah. What's so difficult about it?"

"It's her father, dude!"

"Is he your father?"

"No."

"Then why should you fucking care?" Something is seriously wrong in this guy's head.

"Wow. You're a messed up guy."

"Damn right!"

"Anyway, do you know why you're really coming to this session?"

"No, do you?"

"Bitch, I'm asking. I have a feeling that something bad was going to happen, but my powers aren't strong enough to see it clearly."

"So you can tell when something bad is going to happen?"

"Yeah, comes with the doom aspect."

"Cool, I still prefer my aspect."

"Yeah, light has some cool powers too."

"I just kinda wish I got some other class than bard, it makes it hard to use my aspect."

"It just takes patience. Speaking of titles, what are your friend's titles?"

"Well, there's Cherry whose the Sylph of Life; Her brother is the Knight of Rage; My sister is the Maid of Blood; Our friend Will is the Thief of Heart, and finally his sister who's the Witch of Hope."

"Souldn't you have a space player and a time player?"

"Should we? I had no idea we were supposed to."

"Well I don't remember any point where it's explicitly stated that you need them, but you should at least have a space player."

"Do you have a space player and a time player?"

"Yeah, we have a Page of Space and I think I remember one of my co-players saying our friend is the Seer of Time."

"Those sound like the shittiest space and time players."

"Hey, don't doubt them. A page may seem weak, but I get the feeling he will become one of our most valuable assets. As for our seer, that means he has the gift of foresight."

"Can't you already see the future though?"

"I can only see unfortunate outcomes. He can see ALL outcomes."

"Who else do you have in your session?"

"Well, I'm the Heir of Doom, the short guy I shot earlier is the Rogue of Breath; Our local arsonistic Mage of Void and the memer Prince of Mind. Oh yeah, and my brother, the Knight of Heart!"

"Your team sounds a lot cooler."

"I don't know, I think I'd take your friend Cherry over our mage."

"Why?"

"When's the last time she tried to burn down something?"

"That seems like a good point."

"Anyway, it was nice meeting you, but I need to get going."

He rises from his seat then sticks out his hand. You shake his hand and he disappears.

"Hey, who was that?" You look up to see Cherry looking at you from the foyer you appeared in.

"Just a ghost," You say back "Just a ghost."

END OF CHAPTER 20