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Two nautical-style open-tread oak stairways lead — one from the studio and the other from the living room and kitchen — to five upstairs bedrooms, which are tucked under the butterfly tresses that support the building like a forecastle deck where the sailors sleep.

Brekker gestured Matthias over to where he, Jesper, and Wylan had gathered on the forecastle deck to examine plans of the Ice Court away from the eyes and ears of the crew.

“We were ambushed,” Wylan said from his perch on the forecastle deck.

Kit Tyler had been on the forecastle deck since daybreak, standing close to the rail, staring hungrily at the first sight of land for five weeks.

The forecastle deck was not under water at 1.35 a. m.