Five minutes later, Makayla, Henry, and Breaker were heading back to the Riverside Marina. Henry told her that the travel lift that was used to move the boats around had been available early this morning and they wanted to take advantage of it. He told her he had almost taken Brian’s head off when they started to put the Defiance in the water and the ‘kid’ forgot to close the seacocks.
“What happens if you forget to close them?” she had asked, thinking it was a funny name for whatever it did.
“The boat sinks,” Henry said. “Luckily, I asked him about it right before they splashed the Defiance in the water. Rookie mistake. Thanks for the work you did on her, by the way.”
Makayla shrugged. “It’s been kind of fun in a way,” she replied, looking out the window as they waited for a train to g
