Settled under the starry blanket in your simple living room fort, you flop yourself back onto the pillows next to an empty glass of white wine; you don't really need it to access your full imagination, but you wanted it to soothe your nerves. Everything's a mess right now and you want to escape. Maybe seeing your old friend will put your mind at ease, too... or at least his. From the looks of things, he wasn't sounding so well...
You imagine the empty place you found yourself in once; it feels like it was so long ago, now, between the doors of life and death. You remember that creaking ship in the sky... the alleyway you were walking through, more recently. The strange, permeating silence. And then you reach out and twist the doorknob in front of you, stepping into that same place. Not too far away, you see a cabinet and a table.
You make your way toward them in silence, hands in the pockets of your long white coat, your bowler hat tipped forward just slightly as you peer ahead, looking for your friend.