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Tuesday 21 May 2019

Voyage out

Sebastian was born into a village of assassins. Because of this, he was trained in the art and became
an assassin trainee ever since he was born. Once a year, all trainees that are 13 years old are
gathered and must undergo a trial to become a full-fledged assassin. In this trial, one must kill 2
other trainee assassins in combat and present the village chief with their heads. Completing this trial
means that you are a full-fledged assassin. And by failing it, you will die. Even though Sebastian was
raised to be heartless, he did not want to kill without a cause. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
he grabbed some jewelry from his parent's room and left the village. Although he could easily
survive by himself with ease, he decided to change his lifestyle and start a new life in Britain.
Once he arrived, he was speechless. kids were starving, families begging for food, drinking
unclean water, and illnesses were running rampant.  It wasn't anything like his village.
He realized that this was happening because of overpopulation and not enough money to go around.
He knew that in order to not end up like them, he had to have a way to get money and as long as he
had money, he would be fine. Back in his old village. In order to survive, he had to be as intelligent
as he was strong and was taught the skills of communication and deception. With these skills
Sebastian found himself a rich man, that happened to be looking for a gift for his wife. He went over
to the man and began to sell him the jewelry. After talking for about 2 minutes Sebastian convinced
the man to buy the jewelry for more than double its worth. A merchant called Arnold observed
Sebastian’s conversation with the rich man and saw potential in him. Arnold walked over to
Sebastian and asked him he would like to work as his apprentice. In return, he would feed him,
pay him, and give him a place to say. With nowhere else to go. Sebastian agrees. 2 years went by
and Sebastian had learned everything Arnold could teach. Sadly, Arnold died of a really bad case
of pink eye. After his death. Sebastian continued to be a merchant and earned lots of money.
For Sebastian, Everyday became comfortable and luxurious. But be remembered that while he
was sipping on his wine. kids were still starving, families were still homeless, and illnesses
\were still taking lives every day.


This made him remember how terrible a place Britain was. With this realization, decided to leave
Britain the next morning. Morning came. Sebastian had all of his stuff packed when he grabbed a
flyer off the floor. The flyer said that in 17 days, boats were going to sail out to New Zealand.
A paradise country with land up for grabs and plenty of jobs available. He didn't care about the land
or the jobs. but he was interested in going to a new country. Since he was going to leave the country
anyways. He decided, why not go to New Zealand. Everything was settled and Sebastian bought a
first class ticket.

17 days went by quickly and the day had finally come. He was going to be able to finally leave Britain
and all of its misery. He stepped onto the ship and headed to his cabin and the long journey began.
He heard the journey to New Zealand could take up to 120 days. Luckily he had lots of money,
getting him a comfy voyage in a cabin and was given fresh meat and milk all throughout the voyage.
Sadly, other passengers traveling in the steerages were not so lucky. They had to share cramped
rooms with lots of other people. They were given salted preserved meat, ship’s biscuits,
oatmeal, and dried potatoes. The diet was coarse, caused constipation and offered poor
nutrition. Passengers were allowed 3.4 liters of fresh water a day. But the water deteriorated
and a become undrinkable within a couple of months. Because of this both cabin and steerage
passengers attempted to catch rainwater. Due to the lack of fresh water, the only way to wash
your clothes and yourself were to use salt water from the ocean. Also, the steerage
passengers often caught diseases due to poor nutrition and poor hygiene. 120 days went
by and New Zealand was in sight. But out of nowhere, an iceberg flew into the ship killing everyone.

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