4.      Water Planet

This chapter is a very brief interlude consisting only of an epigraph from Herman Melville about true places not appearing on maps. It serves as a thematic marker rather than a narrative sequence.

The chapter contains only a single-line epigraph attributed to Herman Melville: "It is not down in any map; true places never are." No events, dialogue, or character actions occur; the epigraph stands alone as a transitional or thematic pause.