The next morning, the royal couple and their retinue came to the docks early to leave Port Hope. Drayce helped Seren board the ship amidst the liveliness of the port, the sailors scrambling about to make sure all the cargo were in place and the people were all accounted for.
Drayce and Seren stood side by side at the bow while observing all the bustling both in the ship and on the port. Seren asked, "Will we be stopping at another island afterwards?"
"Indeed. We will take another stopover on Turtle Island after two days if the weather is good, and then afterwards we will enter the territorial waters of the Kingdom of Griven."
"Griven? Oh, I wonder if I can meet Rayjin?" But then she remembered that the little girl would probably be with her parents in the capital, not in some distant coastal territory. "How many days will it take for us to get to Griven?"