Chapter 546 - Into the Dark

The ship tore through the dunes of the desert as if they were sea waves, not halting or stopping. The keel hummed with a deep, even vibration that traveled through plank and rib and into the bones of everyone aboard. Runes glowed along the inner rails and shed a faint, patient light that looked pale against the harshness of the sky. Sand parted in long curling wakes on either side, spilled back, and closed as though the desert were a living thing that disliked being cut and healed the wound at once. It was not the surge of water but a dry glide that sang with grit. Propelled by sheer ingenious magic and the vast imagination of mankind.