[Boat — Open ocean — Day 54 — night]
The Eternal Sailors' map showed the Empty Fleet eighteen hours away.
Maya had calculated it three times.
Eighteen hours.
The team processed that in different ways throughout the day — Seraph with the final afternoon training, Raven with the skeletons in the water, Alex with the three Fragments.
And at ten at night, when the boat was still and the ocean calm and the eighteen hours had become sixteen, Emily appeared at the lower deck hatch with something under her arm.
"I found a board game in the storage."
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The deck was empty for a moment before Emily called everyone.
Alex at the railing. Emily beside him with her usual blanket and the game still under her arm.
"What are you thinking?" said Emily.
"About the Empty Fleet."
"Liar."
Alex looked at her.
"Your calculation face isn't that expression." Emily without turning. "What are you really thinking?"
Alex looked at the ocean.
