His plans to build a new stadium are the product of pure 'imagination'. [=they are not based on reality; they are not likely to happen]
He insists that these dangers are real and not just 'a figment of his imagination'. [=something that he has imagined]
The author does not tell us what happens to the characters. We have to use our 'imagination'.
(..) that it were better my mother had not borne me I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious With more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in... ...imagination to give them shape or time to act them in What should fools as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are arrant knaves all, (..)2015 Hamlet
(..) Unhand me gentlemen, or by God I'll make a ghost of him that stays me I say away. Go on, I'll follow thee - He waxes desperate with imagination - 'Tis not fit thus to obey him - To what issue will this come? - Something is rotten in the state of Denmark - Heaven will direct it (..)2015 Hamlet