“She is flying a Dutch flag,” Ezekiel announced to Thor as they stood on the quarterdeck.
He turned to Thor, who took the glass from the quartermaster’s hand and checked the vessel that sailed some distance off to the south.
Thor took a deep breath. He had postponed the fulfilling of his promise of returning Seth to a safe harbor, hoping something would intervene to change the course of events that would separate him from the man with whom he wanted to spend the rest of his life. Thor was still convinced a life with Seth was his destiny. The signs had all foretold it. Nothing except Seth’s sense of obligation to a woman he did not love and his fear of losing Thor in some tragic way stood against the fulfillment of that future. No dead albatross, dolphin, or gull had been seen floating ne
