Seven Seas Timeline and Summary

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• Seven Seas "sees" his way through the morning routine by listening to the familiar sounds around him.
• He sits in Ma Kilman's No Pain Café and sings in a language that she doesn't understand.
• Achille sees Seven Seas in his African dream vision, grieving in a hut after the raid that destroys his village.
• Seven Seas tells Philoctete not to grieve over the absent Achille—he's just gone to Africa to learn his true name.
• He knows of Achille's return before the conch-alarm sounds on the beach.
• Seven Seas tells Achille about the origin of the pomme-Arac's name and schools him further on the significance of names. He tells Achille about his own past life and travels.
• He attends Hector's funeral and stands with Helen, but doesn't approach the grave.
• Seven Seas senses Ma Kilman's return from the wood after her mystical search to find a healing plant for Philoctete.
• He celebrates Christmas with Philoctete at Ma Kilman's place.
• Seven Seas shape-shifts into Omeros as the narrator begins his journey to the Underworld.
• He tells the ferryman to pull into a certain lagoon and points out a ghost fleet that anchors there.
• Seven Seas tells the narrator that his traveling taught him nothing new—the better journey, he says, is to stay at home and let the love of the island course through him.
• He helps the narrator navigate the narrow path through hell.
• Back in the real world, Seven Seas tells Achille that humans are an endangered species.
• At Ma Kilman's, he listens to gossip about Statics and comments on Philoctete's return to health and his splendid yam garden.
• Seven Seas predicts that Major Plunkett will heal in time. Something tells us he's probably right…