Chapter 625: Rules of Contract and Sacrifice

Listening to Tirian's narration, Duncan fell into a long silence and contemplation.

The Homeloss seemed to fall silent along with its captain as the deep creaking sounds from within the cabin gradually subsided, a half-real, half-illusory sense of a spiritual body enveloping the ship as it silently glided over the ocean, moving through an equally silent world.

After a long while, Duncan slowly lowered his head to look at his feet.

He couldn't see, but he could imagine—beneath the layers of decks, deeper than the fragmented structures of the bilge, beyond the borders of reality, Saslouka's spine was still submerged in the dark Subspace, replacing the original keel of Homeloss—the keel Duncan Ebnomal referred to as "the little twig."

That "little twig" had sunk into the depths of Subspace along with the original Homeloss during the disaster a century ago.