30.3 Backtracking?

The journey had been relatively smooth. Granted, we were moving as slow as molasses, but with our engines almost dying on us for the entire duration of the trip back, I could only sigh in relief as soon as our anchor finally fell from behind us.

"Ugh... Back here again," Shen groaned. "I really thought I won't be back here for a long while."

"Well, that's just the breaks of it," I chuckled. "We went through an emergency and it's better for us to make the return trip now than to say, us sinking out there."

I let out a small smile at Shen's grumpiness. It was kind of hard to remember that she was just a kid when she was just barking at us to stop stressing the engine a while ago. Heh, that was a trip and a half.

Stepping foot back on solid ground, I let in a sharp inhale as the lack of the ocean waves almost felt off to me now. Even if it had barely been over a day, I guess I already earned my sea legs that way.