Three days on this heading and we run aground on the shoals. I don't care if I die, but dying from someone else's bad math I couldn't stand, so I went up.

• AmelThe clank of chains dragging carried clear to the far end of the deck at dawn. Everyone pretended to sleep through it.
  SelviaYou're the worst at pretending to sleep, Boatswain.
  AmelMy eyes were open. I was checking where a blanket had gone.
• KiranIf we run aground, the powder kegs flood first!! That's genuinely the worst part!
  YuanaThe hull breaks first.
  KiranOh, that one you can just fix, Yuana.