Chapter Thirty-Three.
My eyes blinked open to find the floorboards looming overhead, their surfaces painted in orange light not from the candles that had long since burnt out but from the sun that rose over the horizon. Neptune was gone, his head no longer resting in my lap, my hand no longer caressing his arm but instead having fallen limp in my lap where he would’ve been. I forced myself onto my feet, breathing in deep and blinking my tired eyes as my hands gripped the table for support. Once I was confident in my ability to walk, I began to creep forward until I was stood on the deck of the ship with my eyes struggling to adjust to the array of various bright colors. The sun had just started peeking out over the ocean, casting a blue, purple, yellow, orange and red cluster of colors across the sky, a sky tha
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