ShanghaiIn his usual nightmare The Teacher stared with cold impassive eyes, his face morphing into a skull and long fingers that pointed at him, then he would wake with a shout of terror. This time there was something else that had particularly disturbed him, his father and another image had entered the scene, his mother. She had disappeared off the face of the earth; all his attempts to reach her by mobile had failed, were both his parents dead? He awoke in terror and looked around, a sickly feeling rising in his gut. Then he recalled being on board "Valkyrie" and the gas. His legs and arms were restrained; he lay on a hard single elevated bed in a small room with no window.
He felt as though he was going to be sick and sensed someone enter the room but unable to see a face, whoever the
