Sailing south along Drustvar's Inland Sea route, Faye reached the waters of King's Bay.
The Small Merchant Ship had been refitted with advanced wind runes, giving it astonishing speed.
Brannon had once bestowed a tidal blessing on the boat. Even if it encountered a sea cyclone, it could ride the wind and evade the waves, sailing steadily onward.
Half a month had passed, but the fighting at King's Bay was still not over.
The pirates outside the bay remained camped along the coastline, their battered warships moored haphazardly. The Pirates Fleet had lost all will to fight.
Faye sailed through waters occupied by the Iron Tide Pirates, but the scouts along her route did not target her boat.
"The fighting's come to this, so why hasn't Lillard taken the initiative to engage?" Faye grumbled before continuing south.
South of Kul Tiras's Outer Sea lay the Great Sea.
Faye did not know the precise location of the Misty Sea. She could only resort to the tedious method of searching for traces of the fleet.
Still, her journey south was not entirely fruitless. Faye discovered a stretch of water covered in black oil.
The oil was not particularly dark. Up close, its rainbow sheen was especially conspicuous in the sunlight.
Faye circled the surrounding waters and found quite a few dead fish floating belly-up.
She did not know whether she was imagining it, but she actually caught the aroma of boiled fish.
Come to think of it, she was getting a little hungry.
Faye fetched some dry bread from the cabin. It had been sitting there so long that it hurt her teeth to eat it.
Her fresh water was nearly gone, too. Faye drank a little under half a cup and carefully stored the rest.
Tide Magic could gather wind and