After dinner was a time for rest, and West, in a good mood, headed towards the crew's lounge.
He was not yet officially a helmsman, so he did not have to take the night shift and could rest like the other sailors.
The deck team's sailors did not need to be on 24-hour duty like the turbine team and the steering team.
This was both a benefit and a drawback, the benefit being their rest was very regular, and the drawback being that this was their only perk as they were the lowest paid on the entire ship.
As soon as he pushed open the door to the lounge, a stench of smelly feet and pungent tobacco smoke hit him, but West was already used to this smell; when seven or eight men gathered together, one couldn't expect it to be very clean.
The crew lounge was arguably the largest cabin on the Unicorne, but it seemed unusually cramped with four double bunk beds, a table, and all the crew's various belongings stuffed into it.
