CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Ceres was resting when the ship lurched. She was on the edge of sleep with Eike near to her, and she barely had time to wake up before she was rolling as the ship listed. She only kept from tumbling right across the deck by grabbing for one of the long chains that bound prisoners in place.
It had to be a storm, and a big one too if it could rock the ship like this. Beside her, Eike grabbed hold of the same chain, and Ceres moved closer to wrap her arms around the girl, climbing along the chain until she could do it. As small as the girl was, there was no way she would survive if she found herself thrown across the hold of the ship.
Several of those prisoners who weren’t chained down were, and Ceres heard screams and yells of surprise as they fell through the air. She
