Rotten Eye Barry had vanished within the city after nightfall, so they had to move quickly.
The witches' cruise ship had not entered the great lake. After it was moored, a small steamship was lowered. Shade and Megan—who had changed back—took the boat onto the lake. After spotting the cruise ship in the distance, with more than half its cabins unlit, they switched to walking across the water toward it.
If it had not still been raining heavily, Green Lake beneath the night sky would surely have been beautiful. But with the rain falling, Shade had no mood to admire the scenery.
According to Paradise Island Pharmaceuticals' preliminary investigation, while Rotten Eye Barry was away from the ship, the cruise ship drifting on Green Lake retained only the minimum number of sailors needed to keep it running normally. When Shade and Megan leaped onto the deck, they found things were indeed just as they had imagined.
In this rainy weather, the sailors were all resting in their cabins, or gathered together to chat and play cards. Since they were all inside sealed rooms, Megan used Duerte's Coma Potion this time, a highly volatile sleeping potion.
The potion worked remarkably well. After Shade tossed it through a cabin door on the deck, Megan gestured for him to enter after only five minutes.
"Drink the antidote first. This potion lasts a long time. You can resist the toxins in Central Island's fog, so you should have some resistance to this potion as well, but it is better to be cautious."
On such a large ship, the only places worth searching were Rotten Eye Barry's own room and the Captain's Room. The latter might contain the ship's voyage logs. Both Shade and Megan suspected that this vessel had transported supplies for That Gentleman