Not bothering to hide his relief, Tal nodded and then let the subject of who drop to focus on how and where.
He checked the sky and then glanced down at his compass - the one that pointed towards the Hollowed Grounds - and adjusted his course a few degrees. Lashing the tiller in place, he hopped the half-wall of the cabin down to the main deck to adjust the sails for their new heading.
"That's... a good idea," he agreed slowly, thinking through her suggestion as he made the rigging fast to a cleat and studied how the wind filled the sail before nodding to himself and heading back up to the wheel. Freeing it from its lash, he took over steering again as they spoke. "But instead o' Hak Etme, how about King's End? It's pretty uncivilized still," he admitted with a grimace for how little progress his new home had made in joining the other settled regions. "So we'll still be workin' in wilderness. But there's more folks there than th'desert. So we can do more t'help people out that way while we're workin' out th'kinks."
He checked the sky and then glanced down at his compass - the one that pointed towards the Hollowed Grounds - and adjusted his course a few degrees. Lashing the tiller in place, he hopped the half-wall of the cabin down to the main deck to adjust the sails for their new heading.
"That's... a good idea," he agreed slowly, thinking through her suggestion as he made the rigging fast to a cleat and studied how the wind filled the sail before nodding to himself and heading back up to the wheel. Freeing it from its lash, he took over steering again as they spoke. "But instead o' Hak Etme, how about King's End? It's pretty uncivilized still," he admitted with a grimace for how little progress his new home had made in joining the other settled regions. "So we'll still be workin' in wilderness. But there's more folks there than th'desert. So we can do more t'help people out that way while we're workin' out th'kinks."
