The following days only added weight to the heavy load they were all carrying on their hearts.
The doldrums. The dull waters. The one thing they had feared was here. Although Bastian had arranged for a chance to take a bath aboard the ship, although they had card games and book clubs, they were still so dreadfully understimulated, so out of their minds with boredom that a fight breaking out on the deck was now a regular occurrence.
While Bastian had formerly thought catfights to be kind of hot, that illusion quickly dissipated in a cloud of torn hair and screams as he broke up a few of them with his authority of a captain.
