Call me in the morning, Ishmael

"What's this?" Astra wondered as she picked up a rectangular object wrapped in oil cloth.

"Careful!" Fred admonished. "It might be more magic!"

"I don't think so," Astra muttered as she slowly unwrapped the package. "It's a book."

And it was not just any book. It was Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and from the look of the cover it was old enough to be a first edition.

Fred wrinkled his brow in thought as Astra opened the book. He seemed to vaguely recall a story about a short fellow with a funny name who could put people to sleep just by reading from that book.

"Call me Ishmael..."

A few hundred words later they were all fast asleep.

1. Fred has a strange dream.
2. Astra has a very strange dream.
3. Velus has an extremely strange dream.
4. And you are in it... and you... and you...
5. Jigglypuff... Jigglypuffffffffff.......
6. Fred wakes with a start, suddenly remembering Fone Bone's name from the graphic novel Bone.
7. They all wake up on the deck of the Pequod.

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