Below Decks Silence

The ship's hold is a suffocating tomb, filled with the stench of failure and the chilling silence of abandonment. Dray finds himself adrift in the darkness below decks, replaying a day of humiliating defeats that have stripped him bare. His crew, once a fearsome extension of his will, seems to be slipping through his fingers like sand. Stiggand gone, Gix sharpening his teeth, Brynn and Silene behind a closed door – Dray feels his authority dissolve, replaced by the bitter taste of being laughed at, defied, and outmaneuvered by the lowest of the low. He's led men through worse, but those men *needed* him. Now, he's just the one with gold no one wants, feeling the cold wood against his back, questioning everything.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.