When Simon came out of his room a few hours ago, Maddie immediately put him to work. The four boys were tasked with rowing the raft. Two in the front of the blue raft, and two at the back of the red raft. The girls, Maybeleen, Deepti, and Maddie were around as well. Maybaleen didn’t help rowing, Deepti tried, but her young body was too small to help, Maddie was the only person who could handle rowing, which was what she was doing after Simon got too tired to help. Simon and Deepti were in charge of keeping a lookout for anything, Deepti on the red raft, and Simon on the blue one with a resting Maybaleen.

He was looking towards the west with the monoculars in his hand. Everyone had them Maddie said, standard issue. When Maybaleen said she saw something Simon quickly got up from his position and to where the woman was. To the left she said. In an excited fashion, Simon forgot to use his monocular to look and relied solely on his eyes with his hands acting as visors to block out the sun. Frantically looking for the land Simon finally realized that he had the monocular in his hands. Putting it up to his eyes, he searched for anything on the horizon in the direction where Maybaleen saw.  Nothing, he didn’t see anything, but an endless horizon of water. “WHERE is it? WHERE did you see it?” Simon shouted at Maybaleen.