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Sometime during the night, Manjiro woke. Something was different. At first he couldn't put his finger on what it was. But when he heard the whoosh of the water moving under the hull, the insistent ticking of the halyards, and the straining of sails filled with wind, he knew: The ship was moving!
Manjiro slid into his trousers and went above deck. A glorious wind pushed at his hair and billowed his shirt. Sea and sky were velvety, the night embroidered with a million glittering stars, every wave frosted with silver moonlight.