The salty sea breeze carried broken stars and hit the side of the ship, and the splash wet the rice paper Xu Shi spread on the railing. The edge of the still-dry sea chart was lifted up by the night wind. He stretched out his hand to hold it down, and his fingertips touched the slightly raised dark lines under the paper - that was the last piece of text on the stone tablet deciphered last night, about the deeper resonance method of "Togetherness", but the handwriting still had a sickly air.
