
Sunrise found the battered Antelope still surrounded by open Atlantic after a fortnight without a known position. Captain, the horizon has offered us no land again this morning. You step into this one-chapter preview with Bruce at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The drifting schooner carried all of you toward the solitary mast before anyone knew what waited beneath it. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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