Gawain's gaze moved back and forth over the page several times before he finally suppressed his impulse to make a snide remark.
The Duke Wilder from six hundred years ago turned out to be a die-hard fan of Gawain Cecil... This gave the present Gawain, who was using Gawain Cecil's identity, an inexplicable sense of awkwardness.
He then continued reading, observing how this ancient aristocrat, who took on the role of an "adventurer," documented the series of preparations he made for this voyage—
"...After making up my mind, I began building a large ship capable of facing this perilous endeavor—it was not easy. Everyone knows that ever since those followers of the storms went mad, stealing or destroying all the ships and fleeing to sea, the human world has not had a proper 'seafaring' endeavor for nearly a century. There are no navigators left who can challenge the ocean, nor anyone who knows how to build sea vessels...
