CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
Sophia searched frantically for the boat with the seahorse at its prow, knowing that she only had so much time before Rupert and the others realized they had been tricked and came back to search the harbor properly.
She scoured the boats there, ignoring the tiny fishing vessels too small to ever risk making such a crossing and the boats that clearly showed other signs. There were still enough large vessels, however, that she had to hurry among them, looking them over and hoping that this one, or that one, might prove to be the one she needed.
She needed to find the ship, because she needed to get to Ishjemme. She needed to find her uncle. What would it be like once she did? First, she suspected that she would need to persuade him that she was who she claimed to be, b
