Synopsis

The steady rhythm of the engine lulled him, a deceptive calm before the inevitable. His eyelids grew heavy, and he succumbed to a brief, unintended slumber. When he awoke, the familiar markers of the fleet were gone, replaced by an unsettling emptiness ahead. The wheel, once a symbol of control, now felt strangely disconnected. He had steered the vessel toward a silent, watery expanse.