Kendle's skin felt very hot as she turned to look at the chunk of shark meat. "'Cept for you."

She laughed again and when it turned to sobs, she rocked herself gently for comfort. She would get through this the same way she had all the other trials. One day at a time.

The sun vanished slowly, leaving eerie, beautiful trails of green and orange that threw strange shadows over the deep, dark waves, and Kendle huddled in the middle while she dozed. She was miserable and heartbroken as the fading light left her with only her sense of hearing and smell, both of which checked in and recorded lapping water and salt, nothing more.

Maybe the land was gone. Maybe that was why she was finding so much of the world in the water. A War? Hell, maybe an asteroid had hit and flooded the earth. If so, she hoped the waters receded soon and set her Ark on a mountain before she went mad. Out here, she was defenseless.