Captain Blackmane visits Surprise, and finds her very familiar.

(Nebula's plan, despite lacking a foremast, is very close to Surprise's.)

I gathered many reference photos while aboard, some of which will show up as explanatory illustrations in the author notes of TCP. Then Twi, my wife, and I took a little jaunt aboard a slightly (300 years) older ship.

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Posting two chapters today because they pretty much are one story beat.

Enjoy!

Clumsily translated from German, it's "farsickness," which is homesickness for a place you've never been to.

Dredged up my old, never-finished model of Nebula to get some details/blocking of a scene correct, and... Yeah. Fernweh.

Yes, I've changed the title of my current story a bit. While doing (yet another) editing pass, I realized that my impulse to avoid a bit of a clumsy word-choice was just flat-out wrong, so I've made a little mid-course correction. My deepest apologies to anyone having to say this new, more sibilant title out loud.