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    Nora and Gail shared most of their new friends, including Rory and Zooey, as well as Jacob Crawford, Michael Schmidt, Jessie Wilson, Nicholas Dorsey, and Emery Milford. They enjoyed playing games with their new friends and listening to the sailors' stories.
    Poor Emy was too quiet to meet many new people, but she did make one new friend, the boy who had handed Nora her butter knife their first night aboard. His Christian name was Seymour, but most knew him by his surname, Sawyer.
    Charlie had offered to take him on because although he was rather small and weak and didn't have the build of most of the other sailors, Sawyer knew everything there was to know about ships as well as the ocean. Even though Charlie already had enough knowledge of such things, and didn't really need a secondhand man, he figured that it was nice to know if anything ever did happen to him he could count on Sawyer to take over and guide Violet safely to shore. The other sailors knew a lot about ships as well, but only the mechanical aspects, not the steering and the orientation.
    Sawyer was by far the most unattractive of all the sailors, with short, wavy flaxen hair, gray eyes that changed into tiny slits whenever he laughed, and very large, round, tortoise-shell glasses. He was only about five feet and six inches tall and weighed barely anything. He hadn't any muscles, since he usually didn't have to complete as much physical work as hard as the other sailors, and his face was covered in tiny brown freckles, as well as a few blemishes.
    He and Emy got along quite well, which suited both fine.
    Nine days into their journey, Nora had just finished a terrible fishing session with Zooey and was looking for Emy to see if she might perhaps like to play a game of cards when she saw Ben up ahead.
    Instantly backing up against the outside wall of Charlie's office so he wouldn't see her, Nora froze and tried to get a glimpse of Ben without him noticing. Ever since the first night she'd seen him she couldn't get him out of her head. It was terrible, she knew, to dream about him so constantly, but she couldn't help it.
    Normally, she wouldn't be so shy about it all and would have tried to get to know the man a little better. That way, she might actually have the chance to pursue something with him. But this time was different. Ben was just so amazing, in her eyes, that she thought she'd never have a chance with him and it would be useless to even try.
    But that didn't stop her from dreaming about it.
    Mary was leaning over the side of the boat, letting the wind blow through her dark ringlets and the smell of the saltwater reach her nose. After spending a few days on the ship, she'd become used to all the smells that come with the ocean. Although she still didn't enjoy them, she didn't cringe and scrunch up her nose at them anymore either.
    "Hello Mary," said a voice behind her.
    She turned around to see one of the very large, broad-shouldered McAdams brothers and returned, "Good afternoon, Noah."
    He smiled, "Would you like to see something beautiful?"
    Mary raised an eyebrow, "And what would that be?"
    He slipped an arm through hers and led her to Violet's bow at the front of the ship. Once they'd reached it he leaned over the railing and laughed, motioning for her to join him. She did so and found herself giggling as well as she saw a group of about five dolphins swimming alongside the ship, riding on the waves the bow created. They swam and jumped around like merry children.
    Mary finally found herself truly enjoying the voyage, a thing she thought was impossible.
    Emy sat on the floor cross-legged near the stern of the ship. Across from her was Sawyer, his glasses falling down his nose a bit as he tried to decide what to discard. They both held a hand of cards and were playing a friendly game of Gin Rummy.
    Nearby, Ben, Nicholas, Jacob, and Jess had out their fishing poles and were trying to catch something to eat for