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A tall, thickly muscled figure approached him.
Deep hazel eyes flashed.

Ronin turned from the rolling sea.

"Are all navigators like you, Moichi? Sleepless
and ever vigilant?"

The wide, thick-lipped mouth split in a grin, the
white teeth made more startling by contrast with
the rich cinnamon skin.

"Hah! There are none so fine as myself, Captain."

"You mean none so foolhardy as to venture out
into uncharted waters."

The smile did not fade as the tall man
brandished a sheet of rice paper.

"This Bonneduce, he gave me the chart when
he hired me, Captain."

"Your ratter is thick with the details of all the
lands to which you have sailed. Yet there is no
mention of Ama-nomori."

Moichi put his hands into the wide cloth sash
banding his waist, looked down at his high shining
sea boots.

"This Bonneduce, Captain, he is your friend,
am I right?" His bearded head nodded. "Well,
should he lie? This chart says there is an island
called Ama-no-mori toward which" here he
made a swift sign across his chest "the Oruborus
willing we sail." He glanced up. "I have sailed to
many

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ports, Captain; seen things so strange that I tell
them now as tall tales, sitting around a warm
hearth in the public room of a tavern in some
fly-blown port of call, half-drunk, while everyone
laughs and compliments me on my imagination.
Have faith, Captain "

There came a soft cry from aloft as the lookouts
changed with the watch. The rigging swung to the
men's weight.