Synopsis

The chronometer hummed, a low thrumming counterpoint to the sudden lurch in Elias’s stomach. One moment he was calibrating the temporal displacement unit, the next, the familiar sterile white of his lab had dissolved into a chaotic scene of splintered wood and salt-laced air. Beside him, Carl blinked, disoriented, his usual easy smile replaced with a look of bewildered awe. They stood on the deck of a vessel, a towering galleon bristling with cannons and adorned with skull-and-crossbones. The sc