The guard carried her up the gangplank without breaking his pace. The woman walked ahead without looking back. Sanna watched the dock recede as they boarded, the pale stone and the watching faces and the man still standing where the guard had stopped him, looking up at her, and the last visible line of the city's white rooftops behind them, and then she was below deck and the door closed and she was alone for the first time since the carriage.
She sat on the edge of the bunk and the ship moved and she was sick almost immediately, over the side onto the floor, and then she sat back and looked at what she had done and started crying.
At some point, she was not certain how long, she was not in a state to track time, the door opened and one of the crew set a bucket beside the bunk without a
