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Adam awoke to find himself in the grips of a cutscene. Golden light filled his eyes as he ran along a grey-brown wooden deck, adjusting the control lines to change the angle of the mainsail. Around him worked four other people, and though he couldn’t really tell what they looked like, one of them was definitely Emelia. A sixth person remained at the helm, apparently controlling the ship’s heading in concert with what Adam and the rest were doing.

I don’t even know how to control a ship, but this cutscene is making me quite proficient, he mused as he continued rapidly adjusting the jib sail at the bow of the ship.

He wasn’t knowledgeable about ships in the slightest, but he could tell that this wasn’t an ordinary sailboat, though it had a lot in common with the bulky vessels that pirates were known to have used in ages past. However, it only had two masts and they were shorter than they ought to be, each just consisting of one large sail and topsail. There was also only one jib sail and it was tied to the bowsprit jutting out from the front. Underneath it was a figurehead of a voluptuous woman in a dress and shawl carved from wood, though it was split and cracked from age and wear. At the front were also two small ballistae.

As Adam ran back up the deck towards the helm, he saw two large fins, like those on a whale, stretching out from the side of the ship and flapping lazily through the clouds as their vessel moved forward. Although he couldn’t see them, he also heard the buzz of propellers from the back of the ship, down somewhere near the rudder.

We really are sailing through the air, he realised.