The Dreams
- They've beamed the X-rays with Kelvin's brainwaves into the ocean, but not much has happened.
- Kelvin is worried that Sartorius is still working on a disruptor to zap the visitors.
- Kelvin is apathetic; things with Rheya are weird, but he can't make himself try to fix anything.
- Kelvin thinks his funk is caused by an alien presence. He's also having bad dreams.
- In the dreams, he is imprisoned in an alien body, or is an alien body, and then something penetrates the body, maybe a woman, and they are together and then they dissolve into worms, which is upsetting. Ick.
- He also has dreams in which someone or something is exploring him; he finds these terrifying.
- Fifteen days after the experiment, he wakes up and the ocean is throwing up huge structures and generally behaving unexpectedly.
- Snow comes over to chat, and tells Kelvin he shouldn't stop shaving—that's how things started to go bad with Gibarian.
- Snow seems to be drunk; he starts babbling about how Sartorius is trying to cure immorality and making progress.
- Rheya is freaked out, so Kelvin tells Snow to get out.
- More babbling by Snow, but eventually he leaves. Kelvin and Rheya stare at each other.