Man over board
Story cubes
Beginning: Bridge, arrow, flashlight.
Middle: Magnifying glass, footprint, shooting star.
End: Card, pair of masks, cell phone.
After the fact, Elias couldn't help but be intrigued by the detour they had made, which had involved approaching the coast of Silent Denmark and sacrificing a couple harpoons and lifeboats to deliver food to a group of people there. He decided to ask Jonas about it.
-Someone apparently approved some kind of small mission in the Silent World, but there was a problem with the food supplies. They apparently used that old bridge to get there in the first place, but the thing was so damaged that it just plain collapsed after the crossed it, so they couldn't just go back where they came from to get food.
Elias was about to ask another question when he got interrupted by Njala's voice bellowing voice:
-Elias! I need a spare lantern from the storeroom! Now!
Elias scampered to the storeroom, only to remember he had no idea where the spare lanterns were being kept. In the midst of searching for them, he noticed two things. The first was that Ólafur's latest unpaid assistant had bailed out of his potato peeling. Elias was used to it. It wasn't the first time some star-eyed youth came aboard for "work experience", only to lose interest the second they found out that they didn't have a license to let people ashore. Njala tended to take them anyway, because she considered those trips easy fixes for the attitudes of such youths, and knew that if their boat didn't take them, some other crew was going to be the one stuck teaching them the harsh lesson. While continuing his search, he found a pile of tuna cans that were not inside a crate, as they were supposed to be. Stealing before leaving was nothing new on the part of those youths, for reasons ranging from spite to having spent all their money to get themselves to a port town and just wanting to make sure they had something to eat on their way back home. However, they usually remembered that they were going to be quarantined and tried to no steal more than what they could fit in whatever luggage they had come onboard with. Those who had changed their mind about not being paid usually went for small, but valuable items. Those who wanted to avoid starving on the way home did usually go for food, but not in such large quantities. After staring at the cans for a while and wondering what had been going through the kid's head leaving so many out in the open, he noticed that they were of the brand of which they had delivered a crate during the detour. Elias briefly considered that the crate those were coming from had been the one delivered, before remembering that he knew how much a crate full of tuna cans was supposed to weigh, and the create would have definitely felt lighter with such a large quantity of cans missing. The feeling he was onto something important started nagging him, to the point that he hardly noticed Jonas joining him in the room:
-Elias! Njala wants to know what's taking so long.
Elias explained, and Jonas agreed to grab the spare lantern, get it to Njala and inform her of the situation while Elias discreetly made sure that the kid wasn't simply somewhere else on the ship. In the end, the search only revealed that anyone the youth could have been with had assumed that he was with someone else.
The youth had left his bag behind. The bag contained his ID card and an address that was most likely that of the home in which he was living with his parents. Elias going to need to make a radio call as soon as the circumstances let him do so.