She bit her lip and gazed at him sadly.
"I," she said, her voice tremulant, "am your wife."
Harvey's memory tore back to a green planet called Earth ... forgotten faces, places. He looked at Dana for the first time, and in that instant of full recognition, she began to dissolve.
"Harvey," she pleaded, "Wake up. You've got to face Reality before it's too late. Please ..." she sobbed into nonexistence.
Harvey wheeled toward the ship and fled up the ramp. "No! No! This is Reality!" he shouted. He stared up at the insane island-moons swirling in the sky; the soft, sourceless aqua of the air; the incredible bulk of the Castle on the Edge of Infinity, and he felt on the brink of Hell. Something was going to happen. Harvey's breathing was loud in the thundering silence.
The Castle suddenly wrenched from the island and lifted ponderously into the air, an immense ghastly shadow looming closer.... Harvey screamed.
He spun around, intending to use the Matter Disorganizer on the Castle as it swung faster and faster toward the ship. The MD slipped from his grasp and sailed high into the air, toward the....
No! No!
Up and up....