Ever since Goreth was slain, the voyage had been smooth and peaceful for a full week.
That night, Fangsheng came up to the deck and spotted Auston standing there as well. He greeted him, looked up at the sea of stars blankly stretching across the sky, and asked, "Mr. Auston, appearing out here like this—could it be that old man Agark is trying to secretly throw cargo overboard again?"
Agark was the first name of that old man who devoutly believed in the Goddess of Everlasting Night; his last name was unknown. Speaking of which, Fangsheng often found it a bit puzzling that Eastern names like his own and Lewan's didn't seem the least bit strange to a bunch of Westerners, and they pronounced them so fluently, too.
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