Echoes of Whale Calls

I thought selling the boat would end the nightmare. Unexpectedly, the moment I handed him the key, I turned the steering wheel for the first time in my life and aimed at the black shadow outside the map. I'm not great, just a baron with nowhere to go. But when I stood on the port side and watched him paint off the old ship name, I suddenly understood—— The great thing is never the ship, nor him, but the route itself that is lengthened by human curiosity.