FIFTY-EIGHT
Deck five was filled with shops and boutiques with a garden area running down the middle. To look at it, anyone could have imagined that they were in an English village or a small European town. In the daytime, the light from the large windows above the shops gave it that “outdoor feeling.” On the outside of deck five were the lifeboats. Twenty huge yellow vessels, capable of holding around four hundred people, clung to the side of the ship like limpets. The entrance to these was nestled in-between the stores, ten large metal bulk head doors sat in alcoves on either side. As Steel and the others approached the double doors to the floor's entrance, he raised his hand to stop them. The doors looked plain with two porthole windows, but each one was thick steel that could contain
