The ship wallowed in the waves. One minute she was high in the air and the next deep in the trough of the wave. Pettic descended to his cabin, but the motion here seemed worse because everything around him was stationary in the cabin but he could feel he was moving. He began to feel quite ill.
This went on for what seemed like a week to Pettic, but after a couple of days the storm had blown itself out and the ship was once more on an even keel and ploughing her way towards the further shore.
The captain said the storm had lost them at least two days, if not more as the ship had been blown slightly off course. As the sailors tried to establish exactly where they were, Pettic worried about the dragons. Would they get impatient waiting for him and begin to cause problems for the population
