He stumbled along. "Same.... On the boat... always." Every day, and unbearable sameness. But then he remembered that wasn't true. "Tom drowned jus' afder you left." Tom had been his older brother by two years. Tom might have bullied him at times, but he had always been there to look out for him when things got bad. Tom had encouraged him to behave. Tom had always managed to appease father when Simon was in trouble. Everyone had loved Tom. And everything had started going down when they lost him. "Modher died. Maggie got married though."