Chance
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You are Charles Powell, a newly certificated officer turned away by every shipping office until a shipping master who shares your name puts you aboard the Ferndale hours before she sails with a hold full of dynamite. You report to Captain Anthony, who keeps his wife hidden aboard against custom, and whose first order is a strange, immediate trust: wake me for anything, however small. By your first midnight watch, a voice outside his cabin is already asking whether the new second officer can be trusted.
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