I'm in a hotel room or apartment with Ileda & Susannah. Susannah's asleep as Leda & I talk on the couch. She lights up a cigarette and I tell her it's a nonsmoking apartment and that we wouldn't want to get in trouble with the tenants. She gets mad and storms out to the porch.

Later...

I'm in a small watercraft trying to catch up with my cruiseship. After some negotiation, I get back on. Later I realize we're towing some smaller boats alongside that carry lots of passengers. I ask the authorities why they won't let them back on and they tell me the passengers don't have their proper papers. Then they tell me they want $15 a head to let them back on. I get furious and shout down to the man in charge that I will pay for all of them to board. I go throughh my pockets and count about $160 in cash. I walk a round pleading with other passengers for donations to get the others aboard.

We're apparently at war and the ship is taking us into combat. I walk around different quarters and see my fellow soldiers waiting around anxiously. I try to encourage them the best I can but we're all a bit down. I run into Rob & Nate Corddry and I greet them warmly. They manage a few smiles as we talk. I ask them for donations for those other passengers, saying that we can only get combat-ready passengers on board for now. "And pilots and other fighting men, logistics & other people will have to wait for now."

I'm now in the swarms of soldiers flooding across a field into the enemy as nearby explosions light up the night sky.