March 12, 1997

I had that dream about that man Mark again.

He told me my companions have a lead on the way home. They stumbled on a world where the government was researching sliding.

"They managed to find the coordinates for your home," said Mark. "But a rogue slider took the timer that has their home coordinates and they are chasing him."

"A rogue slider?" I asked in the dream.

"if they get his timer, they can go home. A woman from his home world is following them. She is Maggie Beckett, a double of the one you know."

I wondered if Mark was real, independently existing, or if her was a manifestation of my homesickness. He would have to tell me something I do not know yet, but could easily verify. Or he could even physically slide to this dimension and meet me in person. Or communicate the coordinates of my home world to me.

And even if he did exist independently, how can I trust him?