Even if his ship was falling to pieces around him.

"But first we need to make sure the ship won't fall apart around us."

Still now that ship fell in behind, keeping; the same course.

It was as if the ship had fallen from the clouds.

And if he did, the ship would fall into other, far more ambitious hands.

It looked as if the ship was indeed falling a second too far.

The original nine ships in the region had fallen to eight by the 1970s.

For four and a half centuries, the ship would fall.

But still the ships fell upward through night, and always there were men to stand watch upon them.

Whatever you've been through, you still had this ship, something stable and comfortable to fall back on.