“It seems to me that the body in the walls served a vital purpose.” The captain’s skin might have turned papery and pale, but his voice still held the rigid quality that made the dull-eyed onlookers turn toward him. “It was required there to block the flow of water. In removing it, we created a weakness in our ship.” Every face in the room focused on the captain, save for Fitz’s. Salt water dripped from his whiskers as he stared into the hole he’d formed, manic, utterly possessed. He showed no reaction to the words as the captain continued speaking. “The body shall be replaced,” Virgil said.
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