Dreams In Flight Mode

The cabin lights have been dimmed.

Everyone is asleep or supposed to be sleeping.

Leonardo is half-dozing. His mind on the dynamics of tilted egg boxes.

What about some sort of swivel? Or a rotating door?

Terence has got down from the arm rest.

He squeezes past Belle who is curled up in her seat under a thin airline blanket.

Her toes are sticking out of the blanket.

The toes are moving.

She is dreaming of running along a runway, and then taking flight.

Behind her, Gaius is dreaming of cuttlefish. 

Irridescent cuttlefish undulate all around him. He is in the water, with his eyes open, He is looking for a particular cuttlefish, the Twitcher. He spots a cuttlefish that looks like the Twitcher. He swims up to it. Are you the Twitcher? he asks, without opening his mouth. Not really, I died many years ago, says the Twitcher...

Denis Diderot is sleeping beside him. He is dreaming of Sophie Volland. Sophie has written him a letter with real ink on real paper. She is watching him read it. He reads: Have you made any progress? He looks up at Dream-Sophie. That depends says Dream-Denis. Dream-Sophie laughs at Dream-Denis. Such an answer will not get you anywhere, says Dream-Sophie. I can't do much about it while I'm in flight mode, answers Dream-Denis...

Terence is watching Gaius and Denis.

Both asleep, just like Belle and Leonardo. 

So there's no one to talk to. 

He wanders down the aisle in his pobblebonk costume.

Maybe there'll be someone. 

A girl is coming towards him. 

What do you think I am? asks Terence.

A weird frog, says the girl. What do you think I am?

Tricked, says Terence.

Why? asks the girl. 

I'm not a frog, says Terence. Is this a frog's face?

Could be, says the girl. They have different faces.

Where are you going? asks Terence.

Back to my parents, says the girl. I just went to the toilet. It's free now, maybe you should go.

Why? asks Terence.

You could look in the mirror, and see your frog face, says the girl.

The girl continues going back to her parents.

Terence decides to go to the toilet.