Chapter 1.7: Troubled Waters

Trust is a luxury you can't always afford, but sometimes you can't move forward without it. When yesterday's enemy claims to be today's ally, instinct and evidence pull in opposite directions. The easy answer is to refuse—but the easy answer might cost everything. So an unlikely alliance boards a yacht bound for distant waters, carrying mistrust, paranoia, and the fragile hope that people can change. Someone's going to break before journey's end.