New Year's Eve, 1845: Crozier drinks punch and mulls his options on Beechey Island.
There have been stranger love-matches made at sea. Probably.
Leo allows himself to be escorted home, rather than jumping. Daimler puts the young prince to bed.
(What urge will save him now that sex won't?)
In Monte Carlo, Lermontov aims to turn Craster's head. It works out differently than intended.
He might be Hickey's creature, now, but that doesn't mean he's happy about it.
Crozier's past has come back to haunt him before, but not quite like this.
The crew of the Volunteer take pains to revive their surgeon after his plunge.
Irving enjoys a range of Christian pleasures and graces: singing with friends, watercolors, study, climbing exercises, handball.
Hickey thinks on what is to come for Billy Gibson and for himself.