Rorschach, a strangely-marked little unicorn, meets with his new advisor, Thsera, and learns he is being sent away from the Guild Hall of Babel to the College Esoterica of Babel, to further his studies, now that his mentor has passed on. On the airship, he meets a little bat named Skiree, and they talk … and Rory introduces his "imaginary friend", Silhouette.