[ Curufin is just out of bed on the morning of Day Six of the month of Egret. He looks a little frazzled, too. He rubs his hair and looks straight into the ICP screen. ]

I just had a dream. [ Small smile. ] Luckily it didn't hurl me out of bed onto the floor this time.

I found myself in a long passageway whose walls were steel plates. There were red warning lights flashing and an alarm screaming at us. A mechanical voice announced, Shields critical! I came to a viewing platform and from it I could see that we were high above a planet hanging in space. It was suddenly smacked by a wave of energy that came from I know not where, but I could see the wave ripping across that world's surface. It's sky flared red with that energy, a brilliant rubescent glow that was increasing by the second.

Suddenly the platform shook, lurching to the side. All the lights went out, and I was in the dark. The dream ended there.

It was too brief a dream to yield much information. So I don't know whether the platform was struck by the same force as the planet was. If so. . .

[ Well, it's possible everybody on the orbiting platform was killed. Not to mention everybody on the planet's surface. He doesn't much like either of these ideas! As you can tell by his frowny face. ]