Alptraum enlists the help of Rorschach the Shadow Mage to provide him with a limited spell of invisibility. He then journeys with Autumn-Storm along the perimeter of the area of Babel known as the Wound, and they set up camp along the edge. Alptraum is beset by a strange dream of Rephath, and then awakens, finding that he has slept through the entire day. He parts ways with Autumn-Storm, and continues to the Coalition Tower.