The Last of Five Journeys

Erie is tired of keeping secrets. She has opened nearly two thousand boxes since merrick bought her from the prison ship and wrote her a contract. Open every box on five ships and he would let her go far from where she came from a free woman. In ten days, erie tells herself, ten days. The ache in erie's chest deepens a bit. She wonders what she just gave up. Opening truth locks. Truths a lock breaker has told nobody else can open a lock. As soon as the truth is spoken aloud to the lock, it disappears, unusable. Every trunk requires sizable truths, even those that erie guesses don't contain anything particularly valuable