Aurelia was locked in a small room in the cabin with a few other illegal immigrants, and police officers were guarding outside.
The boat was big and slow on the sea, but the rise and fall of waves bobbed the boat. Aurelia had never been on a boat, so she felt dizzy.
She rested near a window where there was a gap opened. A salty sea breeze blew in and ruffled her long chestnut hair.
Aurelia dry heaved, and the illegal immigrants around her shot her sympathetic looks. However, they could barely protect themselves, so they could do nothing aside from offering their sympathy.
A police officer opened the door not too long later and asked all of them to go out.
Aurelia suppressed her discomfort and stumbled out of the boat. It had arrived at the open sea, away from Chaiseland, and would go to Eropah if it kept going forward. These illegal immigrants came from Eropah and were now being repatriated.
Aurelia was not from there. She had grown up in Melorian. "Repatriate" was incredibly mocking and absurd to her. Where was she supposed to return to?
Her mind was blank.
There were a few private boats drifting over from the open sea that were mainly in this business—to send the illegal immigrants back to where they should return to and collect fees from them.
"Go on!" The police officer's icy voice snapped Aurelia out of her daze.
She turned around and met the officer's mocking gaze.
"Miss, have a good journey! Don't come to Chaiseland ever!"
"I…" Aurelia was pale. The boat shook so much that it nauseated her.
"Let's go." The old nomad lady who was also in the boat looked at her with a complicated gaze.
Aurelia's eyes were pained. "Where should I go?"
"Wherever you've come from!" The old lady chuckled wryly. "I came from Feranche. After leaving for so many years, it's about time I go back.
"Sunny, if you really don't have a place to go, come to Feranche with me? We nomads make everywhere home. We can live anywhere!"
The old lady hopped into a boat after she spoke to bargain with the boatman.
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