
Grief for Natalie has left you adrift for years, so you let your friends talk you into a long voyage — Bickley for medicine, Bastin for sermons neither of you asked for. Months out from Samoa a cyclone catches the yacht for three days straight, and you wake in a broken hull thrown against a strange shore with only the surgeon and the missionary alive. From the cliff above the wreck you watch a crowd approach, led by a tall figure in a feathered cloak.
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