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He placed his hands on the rails, looked down at Virtue’s anxious face, and said, "Ahoy there, matey"

"Go look around," Virtue said

"That’s ‘Go look around, Captain,’ to you"

Sanjit strolled with false nonchalance to the first door he found He’d been on the yacht twice before, back when Todd and Jennifer were still around, so he knew the layout

It was the sa disappearance: he was going into places he didn’t belong, and there was no one to stop hihost ship Like so out of Pirates of the Caribbean But very posh Very nice crystal glasses Little statues stuck in alcoves Framed movie posters Photos of Todd and Jennifer with some kind of famous old actor

"Hello?" he called, and instantly felt like an idiot

He went back to the bow "No one home, Choo"

"It’s been months," Virtue said "What did you think? They were all down here playing cards and eating potato chips?"

Sanjit found a ladder and hung it over the side "Come aboard," he said

Virtue climbed up carefully and instantly Sanjit felt a little better Shielding his eyes he could see Peace up at the top of the cliff, looking down anxiously He waved to show everything was okay

"So, I don’t suppose you’ve found aaround?"

"Helicopters for Dummies?" Sanjit joked "No Not exactly"

"We should look"

"Yeah That would be great," Sanjit said,his jaunty sense of humor as he looked up at Peace on the cliff "Because just between you andto fly a helicopter up out of here scares the pee out of ht stars Three kids in each boat Two pulling oars, one at the tiller The oars stirred phosphorescence with each stroke

Quinn’s fleet Quinn’s arhty Quinn Navy

Quinn didn’t have to take a turn at the oars; after all, he was the boss of the whole fishing operation, but he found he kind of liked it

They used to just asoline, like everything else in the FAYZ, was in short supply They had a few hundred gallons of marine fuel left at the encies, not for daily work like fishing