Yeah? How about you say that to my face?


"Morning actually is really fresh in the open ocean!" Manus exclaimed.

"Well, wasn't that obvious?" Paff asked.

"Well... I... ... yeah, I guess so. I'm just trying to make conversation."

"Hmm."

"Well, what should we do?" Manus sat down beside her. "It was a stupid idea to try and get our own ship... we should've gone with everyone else."

"Yup," Paff nodded, without looking at him. She was caught up reading her book, Eldest by Christopher Paolini.

"Ugg," Manus groaned.

While Manus wasn't looking, Paff slipped her iPod Nano out of her pocket. She tuned it to one of her favourite songs, put on her earphones and listened while reading.

Manus continued to tour the ship. Although he had been on one of Tetra's ships before, he had never really got a great tour of them. He explored all the rooms he was allowed to enter; he met the ship's chef making a nice stew for lunch. Manus had nothing else to do, so he just lounged around listening to the chef's stories. While drinking coffee, of course.

Eventually, after their stew lunch, Paff let Manus listen to her iPod. He spent the next four hours listening to all of her songs, before going to sleep, despite the fact that it was still about 8:30.

Paff just lounged reading her book. She wasn't a fast reader, so it took her a great deal of time to just make it a certain amount through it's pages. Besides, she had other books that she brought. She was smart.

The night came quickly, as well as their slumber. Nothing happened that night that could really prevent them from sleeping 'till morning.