With shaking hands he hauled the Book out of the drawer and opened it to D and followed down the columns with an unsteady finger, desquamative, dessert, destinate, destination
Destination (n) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; a place or point aimed at.
The Ship had a destination.
The Ship was going somewhere.
The day would come when it would reach the place that it was going.
And that would be the end, of course.
The Ship was going somewhere.
But how? Did the Ship move?
He shook his head in disbelief. That the Ship moved was unbelievable. It was the stars, not the Ship, that moved.
There must be, he felt certain, another explanation.