We arrived at Marina’s bakery shortly after, she welcomed us into the shop and as I suspected, Kaden and Sorren were there. I can’t imagine what Sorren had done unsupervised.. I shook my head, pushing the thought away.

“Good morning, you slept okay?” She asked us.

“Yep!” Calypso replied. I just nodded.

“What can we do to help you?”

“Oh.. well uh.” She looked around, seemingly thinking of what we could do. “Kaden and Sorren are helping me knead dough and organize.. Calypso, could you clean the windows and Wyvern, do you mind attending to the front counter for a bit?” We both nodded.

Calypso was handed a wet rag and a small, metal bucket full of soap water. Marina informed him that if he needed any help, just ask. She then guided me over to the front counter and told me what to do.

“I have a board stating prices in the front of the shop and a small one behind the counter if you need to figure out what something costs. It gets a bit busy around lunch and dinner time, so if you want to do something else around then, I can find something else for you to do.”

“No need. I help my mother with her business, so I think I should be able to do this.. Hopefully.” I nodded to her.

“Alright then.” She replied simply and walked away, going behind the main wall into the kitchen that was behind me.

Customers started to come in shortly after, asking for a variety of things, some of which I didn’t even know. I somehow, to my astonishment, got what they wanted correctly. A few of them gave me messages to tell Marina and 2 of the people even left me a tip. I didn’t plan on keeping it, it wasn't mine anyways. This lasted for quite a bit until around sundown, in which it was not as busy and we all started to clean up. Calypso and Kaden were cleaning in the kitchen, Marina and I were cleaning the floors and Sorren was doing countertops. This didn’t take more than 20 minutes.

“Thanks, boys, that was one of the easiest days I’ve had in a while!” Marina gazed around her shop, admiring it.

“No problem. Glad we were of assistance.”

We eventually left and went back to the inn, the day had gone by surprisingly quickly. I shrugged to myself as we entered the building, and I waved to Jonas.

“Your day was alright?” He asked.

“Yes, sir. It was good, your wife has a good bakery.” I nodded to him.

“Ah.. yes indeed she does. It was her dream for quite a while, glad she made it a reality. She was always that type of woman. That’s what I love about her.”

“She never told us that, that is interesting to know.” I replied, not knowing what else to say.

We trailed up to our room and settled down in the same places as the night before. I found myself awake after a bit, everyone else was asleep- at least from what I could see. I looked around and stood up, staring out the window for no good reason but to entertain myself momentarily. I wondered what my mother was doing right now.. Or what she was thinking. What were Calypso’s parents doing? And Kaden and Sorren’s parents? I thought about this for a while.. It truly was something that I kept in mind. I shrugged to myself and shook my head. I needed to stop worrying for a bit and sat back down on the floor, folded my arms and tried to go to sleep for a bit.

When I opened my eyes next, I found there was minimal light outside, meaning it was most likely about 6 am. Good enough for me. I shrugged and stood, starting to get ready for the day. Without waking anyone up, at least hopefully, I left. I trailed down the pathways as an idea came to mind.. Maybe this honestly would work. I side tracked and went to the docks, hoping to see someone there. To my surprise, there was quite a few people already starting their shift here.

“Excuse me?” I called out, approaching a group of 3 people.

“Aye?” One said and turned to me.

“Do you have ships that deliver packages, mail, stuff of that sort around here?”

“We do, yes.” They nodded, this was going well.

“See, I’m not supposed to be here. Not that I am illegal or something but, I am supposed to be in Oxford, Britain at the moment and I need to get back. Someone here said a ship wouldn’t be coming for at least a week’s time and I was wondering if that mail ship could take me and 3 other people back?” I explained, waiting for a reply.

“I think they would be able to, they have done it before. It’s actually how I myself got here.” They nodded to be with a short smile.

“When does the ship leave? Or when will it come?”

“It comes about four in the afternoon today, leaves within a couple of hours depending on how much there needs to be put on the ship before it departs.”

“Thank you very much, Sir. You’ll see me and a couple of people around that time.” I told him, he nodded with a thumbs up.

I walked back to the inn, going to see if my friends were still there. If not, I was going to head to the bakery and let them and Marina know what I had learned. When I arrived, fortunately, they were getting ready to leave. They were standing in the lobby as Calypso and Kaden were talking to Jonas.

“Oh! Wyvern! Where have you been, mate?” Sorren turned and waved shortly.

“Finding us a ride home.”

“Wait- you found us a way home?” He arched an eyebrow questionably.

“Yep. A person at the docks said there is a mail ship that will practically take you anywhere you want. He said he got here by that boat, and I am almost positive that it can take us back to Oxford.”

“Well, that’s nice to hear!” Sorren nodded. “I do have a question though.. How are we going to get to France and Australia?”

I facepalmed. I was all mixed up lately.. “I forgot that we needed to go see Calypso’s mother.. We can go to France first, go back to Oxford and then figure out a way to Australia. Most ships in the Europe area don’t take you to other places that aren’t in Europe unless they are international transport ships.”

“Well thanks for the history lesson! My father isn’t probably too worried but I would still like him to know what has happened within the past couple of weeks..” Sorren shrugged.

“That’s understandable. We should go tell Marina now.”

“Calypso, Kaden! Stop being a chatterbox and come walk, Frenchies!” Sorren exclaimed, jogging to the door towards me.

“Finee.. Bye, Mr. Jonas!” Kaden waved, walking backwards.

“Byeee!!” Calypso waved as well.

We trailed down to Marina’s bakery, I was ahead of the others as they continued talking. Mostly Kaden and Calypso.. Whom I could tell were talking in French. We arrived shortly arrived, it wasn’t a far walk thankfully. She was already there, starting to open up.

“Good morning, Marina.” I waved to her.

“Oh-! Good morning, Boys. Did you sleep alright?”

“Yep.” I nodded, so did the others.

“We have something to tell you!” Calypso abruptly said, poking out from the side.

“And that is?” She arched an eyebrow.

“You see, I went to the docks this morning and asked one of the workers if there was any other way back home. He said that we could take a ride on the mail ship which would take us really anywhere that we wanted to go. However, I forgot that we do need to stop in France to visit Calypso and Kaden’s parents since we have been gone for a decent amount of time..”

“That’s good news! I’m glad you will be able to get back home.” She smiled at us. “When does the ship leave? Or come.. I don’t really keep track of that sort of stuff.”

“The worker says it comes around 4 today and leaves within a few hours, however I would like to be there an hour earlier just in case.”

“That’s understandable- and good time management.” Marina nodded with the compliment. “You can either stay here until you would like to leave or go back to the inn, whatever you would like to do really.”

“We can help out for a bit to pay for last night.” I said. That would be fair for her and a nice way to leave.

We did some of the stuff we had done yesterday, I did the front counter like I had done and the others.. I honestly didn’t know what they were doing at the time. I was a bit in my own world quite frankly. We left about 2:45 in the afternoon, saying goodbye to Marina and thanking her for her hospitality.

“Tell Icho that it was nice to meet him as well! I’ll miss him..! Even though I didn’t know him very long..” Calypso said to Marina as we walked out the door.

“I will, he will be happy to hear that! He is always worrying that he is too much to handle for some people.” She chuckled. “Have a safe trip home, and if something happens, feel free to come back!” She called.

“We will!” Kaden waved.

As we headed for the docks, it was awkwardly silent. The air had a nervous feeling but sort of excitement which rubbed onto me. I hoped this would go well..

“Aye, there you are!” I recognized that voice, it was the worker I had met this morning.

“Hi. These are my friends. Is the mail ship here yet or are we early?”

“It hasn’t arrived yet but I got news it will be coming around the same time as I told you earlier.”

“And I just tell them where I want to go and they will stop there?”

“Yep.”

“I need to go to France before Oxford, I have a message for a couple of people.”

“Aight. That shouldn’t be a problem, some sellers here ship things to France so they are probably going there anyway.” The man shrugged.

It didn't feel like long before the large ship arrived, it was quite huge and already had crates and other boxes on it. Probably had stopped somewhere else before this. Me and my friends were directed onto the deck and up to the captain by the worker.

“Serl? These kids need to go to France and then Oxford. Can ya take ‘em there?”

“Ah..” The captain turned, his deep voice rumbled. “I can. Thanks for notifyin’ me.” He sounded almost as if he was Scottish.

“Where should we go?” I asked him.
“Hm. You can stay up here with me as long as you’re not too much trouble.” He shrugged.

“Thank you, Mr. Captain Sir!” Calypso popped from behind me.

“You're welcome young man.” He smiled briefly.

The worker departed off the ship and waved to us. We took a seat behind the captain, who was steering the ship with a wooden wheel. Finally, we were on the right ship, going to the place we needed to be.

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Chapter 1: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-1/
Chapter 2: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-2/
Chapter 3: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-3/
Chapter 4: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-4/
Chapter 5: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-5/
Chapter 6: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-6/
Chapter 7: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-7/
Chapter 9: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-9/
Chapter 10: https://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/voyager-chapter-10/