They divided the food between them when either, or both, got hungry, which wasn’t very often. The howling wind outside and the rising water level below them robbed them of much of their appetite. That and not knowing what was happening to the world outside. To Mangus’s body, more precisely. Periodically throughout the day, the lighthouse would shake when some large object was hurled into its side by the fierce wind, but the brick tower held. It was terrifying to think that something large enough to rattle the lighthouse could be thrown about by a mere wind. During the long hours Dathan tended the light. Normally the light would be cared for in the morning and lit in the evening but the storm made it necessary to keep the light burning continuously. Adrella pitied any of the men aboard ships that were caught in this gale. Fortunately Dathan had been able to move several drums of oil farther up the stairway out of the rising floodwater.
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