Nina came onto the deck and raised her right hand toward the sky—a fierce flame erupted from the palm of her hand, turning into an arc of light bright enough to penetrate the thick fog. This ray of sunlight flickered above the Homeloss, sending a greeting and tribute to those heading to their deaths on another timeline.
Did the Sea Song see it? Did they, on that other timeline, know what had happened? Were they en route to their deaths, or on their way back home? In the brief moment when the lights flickered and the two timelines intersected, did they understand their fate?
The window of converging timelines gradually closed, and the ship's silhouette began to rapidly dim and blur, once again dissolving into jumbled lines and shadows, like something briefly surfacing before sinking back into the endless darkness of the "Deep Sea."
