The youngest's hand on the quadrant shakes less after ten days. I never meant to play mentor, but I couldn't just leave the kid who climbs up to the crow's nest first every night and come down alone.

• TheoYou checked my work three times. I was counting.
  SelviaDon't count. Counting makes the fourth time feel like a burden.
• AmelThat kid's started copying you now. Even the way you squint, exactly the same.
  SelviaThere's nothing good about learning that from me.