An order went up from the Blue sterncastle: 'Raise the tower!'

Nok was at the tall sterncastle, where he would oversee the coming battle.

He leaned over the railing of the sterncastle.

Then he returned to the sterncastle.

He was surprised to find that Moqorro and two of his fiery fingers had joined them on the sterncastle.

That was when Tyrion noticed Penny, watching the mummery from the steep wooden stair that led down beneath the sterncastle.

Eliza gestured toward much the finest ship in the basin, a Ship of Force with a sterncastle magnificently sculpted, and spread thick with gold leaf.

The waterman made them drift beneath the jutting sterncastles of the three hulls.