““When a sailor’s drowned body was found tangled in lines over the port side, the men agreed he must have fallen overboard in the night. They said a rough prayer, and the cook went to work. And still there was no land. The sun burned furious and the wind did not blow. In accident and suicide, one by one the crew fell, until at last there were only two. The cook declared it was punishment from God, that they were to wander forever to pay for the crime of eating another man’s flesh. Edmund agreed, and together they prayed forgiveness. He killed the man with the same blade he’d””
