Status Updates From Fortune's Hand: The Triumph...

‘The haul is something. With it the Queen may begin to reap the rewards for her faith in me. I must hope that the profits from this prize alone will satisfy our investors and so vindicate the project. We may now attract more backers and finance more colonies along the eastern seaboard of America. Soon we will have a chain of harbour fortresses from which our adventurers may venture out’

‘Her gaze is bold. In any other woman, you would call it brazen. But she is our Queen. And yet I see the flicker that betrays an inner conflict. Between doubt and decision. Between what the world expects of her and what she feels herself capable of... Hers are the loneliest eyes I have ever seen.’