Greetings Sailor...

While Rosie and Roslie were looking for Rose to tell her about the 'Heart Song attack', the First Mate of the Bonny Blue was meeting an old friend.

Now Rose did not always wash clothes for ogres.  In her youth, she was an elemental known for her wisdom, travels, and adventures which included exploring dark jungles and sailing on the known seas.  On one occasion, a young sailor had sought her out to ask advice concerning a problem that he had.  She never imagined that she would meet him now!

As Rose walked around a large white boulder in this strange land of crystal and whiteness, she almost stumbled across something she never expected.  A drunken sailor sleeping on the ground.  Or at least she thought he must be drunk when she saw the empty bottle of rum laying on his chest and for a pillow his head was resting on a treasure chest.  "How typical," she first thought until she realized that she recognized this sailor.  "Bohoj!  What are you doing here?" she yelled, waking the sleeper.

Quickly Bohoj jumped to his feet and prepared for battle reaching for a sword that no longer hung from his belt as he scanned his surroundings.  As he saw Rose, a look of confusion filled his face.  "How did you get here?" he asked as he continued to look around the area for anyone else.

​It took a little bit before both of them finished their stories on finding themselves in this strange land of whiteness and realizing that they were also both beached on a shore that they could not leave.

That is when Rosie and Roslie found them.  At first Rose's helping hands sisters kept their distance from Bohoj as they were not sure of his intentions, but quickly Rose informed them that he was an old friend. "We will probably need his help to get out of this strange place we're stuck in," Rose told her 'sisters'.

It was then that Rosie told Rose about her 'Heart Song attack' and her dream about using the teli-pone to talk to Granny Flare.  It was when she mentioned the part about the Moon Dragon that made both Bohoj and Rose flinch.  Hadn't they had enough with Wish Dragons granting wishes and getting them into this predicament to seek out another Dragon?

Finally, after more discussion, Rose decided that they did not have many choices.  Since the badd-erly on the teli-pone said it was charged, she pressed the buttons that had connected previously to Granny Flare's PEE-C.

"Hello.  Is this Rose?" asked the voice coming out of the teli-pone.  "Hi Granny, this is Rose.  Can you help us get back home?"  Not wanting to run the badd-erly back down, Granny Flare quickly told Rose about a plan that the Moon Dragon, Dree, was working on.  "We are hoping to see if we can bring you, Rose, and all of the others trapped in the World of Whispers home again," Granny Flare said.   "We are still working out some of the problems in the plan, but are hoping to have it all in place very soon.  Dree is now practicing with my Portal Key Stone but I fear that without some way to anchor the portal he won't be able to keep it open very long for everyone to make it home," Granny finished.

It was then that the teli-pone started beeping again telling them that the badderly was almost out.  "I've got to go and recharge the badderly," Rose told Granny.  "I will call you back when it is ready again."

"That would be great," Granny answered.  "In the meantime, if you can think of a way to keep a portal open, let us know when we talk again."  Before Rose could push the off button the teli-pone went dead and all of the lights went out.

"Oh no!" cried Bohoj.  "Now we can't get help from them."

"Don't worry.  We have a way to recharge the badderly.  It's trying to find some way to hold a portal open that is going to be the problem," answered Rose.  "We need to see if there is something here we can anchor Granny's Portal Key Stone connection with that will keep the doorway open long enough for all of us to get out."

If Rose hadn't said 'anchor', Bohoj might not have gotten the idea that soon came to him...