Book One, Chapter Four: The Secrets of Remy Bonnaire

Ludo's reaction to the last chapter's reveal is shown, Ludo tearfully embracing an emotional Honeyfoot, the two Bonnaire half siblings crying over the revelation of their familial bond. Honeyfoot relates his backstory, where Ludo and Remy's father Harold eloped as a teen with Illaria, Honeyfoot's mother. As teen parents they returned to their respective families, having been unable to take care of an infant. Since Illaria was bethrothed to another, neither of their families had approved, and Honeyfoot was sent to live at a monastery with the scandal covered up. The other Bonnaires apparently knew about Honeyfoot, Varna even visiting Honeyfoot at the monastery on occasion. It's unclear how Remy knew Honeyfoot was his brother, but he and Honeyfoot kept it secret from the crew.

Ludo's motivation for stealing the Gallant is revealed to be Mayhem (and the desire for scientific discovery that is denied to her as a woman.) As a woman, she was told her presence in the university would be improper. So she decided to show them just how improper she could be, leading to the events of the first chapter.

The story is progressed through snippets of the time on the ship supplemented by Ludo's captain logs. Honeyfoot's relation is a thought constantly on her mind, not so much the ship's chef's, Jova's, comments about the animals on the ship going missing. Jamis comments that their pleasant weather thus far on their voyage is almost eerie. At that moment a clamor sounds on deck, with Ludo checking it out in captain mode. A shape shifted Luck has been caught in a net, with Jamis advocating for the creature to be thrown over, and Ludo for them to be brought to her cabins. Honeyfoot poking at Jamis's ego provides a distraction for Ludo's orders to be followed.

Once alone in the captain's quarters and freed, Luck displays their tattoos defensively, and when concerned by Luck's nosebleed and collapse Ludo reaches towards Luck, Luck bites Ludo's hand. The two appear to faint long enough for the day to turn to night, and as Ludo comes to she sees a humanoid Luck, only for that form to vanish as she blinks, replaced with the original seal like creature that had been captured. A wobbly shape shifted Luck takes to the corners of the room, hiding away from everyone. Jamis and Honeyfoot express concern about the creature, growing only more worried about Ludo when she shares what she remembers happening, save for the fact there's no visible signs of broken bones, just a weird feel where the bite occurred, like a broken wound healed incorrectly. Jamis refers to the creature as a sausage, possibly inspiring Ludo's future naming of the creature. Despite Ludo's warmth towards Luck, Luck displays clear hostility towards the oblivious Ludo.

A storm hits the ship, Ludo fairing much better in terms of sea sickness but not so well in terms of comforting Luck. Escaping Ludo's grasp, Luck knocks over a bunch of books, leading Ludo to discover Remy's secret hidden diary. After a small back and forth on the benefits of using the diary to better understand her brother's situation and to better impersonate him, weighed against intruding on her brother's diary, she decides to read a small bit. Thus coming to the shocking revelation that her brother was/is in love with her fiancé, Jamis Arlesi.

Surprised and tempted by the secret she discovered by her brother, Ludo sets out to read the diary from the start, with Remy taking command of the Gallant. After the ritual, Remy is introduced to Jamis Arlesi for the first time, who is being foisted onto the Gallant because his father, Lord Arlesi, wants Jamis to shape up. Despite being bothered by Lord Arlesi's behavior towards Jamis, Remy quickly finds himself tired of Jamis, who proves to be lazy, vulgar, and childish. Remy's attempt to speak with Jamis openly and honestly in order to get Jamis to start taking responsibility for himself is rebuffed, and their relationship remains contentious with Jamis undermining Remy up until the Gallant is caught in a storm. Due to Jamis's laziness and Remy failing to properly call him out, the Gallant threatens to sink below the waves. Remy starts to accept his death until he thinks of his sister Ludo being upset that he didn't bring back the gifts he promised, and he finds the strength to captain the ship out of danger, taking charge. He attempts to steer the ship, but after his arm comes out of its socket the wheel is too heavy for him alone, and a changed Jamis helps him through the stormy waves.

When Remy wakes up, having blacked out to due to his damaged shoulder, he finds Jamis there, who shows Remy he wants to turn over a new leaf.

Coming to the end of the entry, Ludo reflects on her relationship with her brother. Despite everything, she wished she was traveling on the Gallant with Remy, not impersonating him. But she does not regret her actions in the slightest.

In the diving bell where she first stowed away, Luck transforms back into her humanoid form, raging against the pet treatment Ludo has been giving her. As her rage takes her she changes into something other-wordly, tearing off a bow, declaring herself the Maldoror. With effort she calms herself, returning to humanoid form and deciding against sinking the ship. Catching herself picking at meat on a bone, she settles on a half humanoid half other-wordly form, fuming at what she's been reduced to. With immense cleverness, she decides to keep pretending to be a lap dog for Ludo so that Ludo will pamper and feed her. How clever Luck is.(Note: Luck uses whatever pronouns no matter which ones may be used predominantly in a current text or how Luck is currently presenting. Which for the majority of this chapter was a striped sausage.)

While Luck laughs at their own intellect, an ominous white trail of wisp travels along the ship ending in the previously bitten hand of Ludo, who sweats, agitated, in her sleep.

End of Book One.