When Max had communicated with the Black Hounds about coming to one of their events, they had only received a location and a time. They didn't receive anything else, so Max himself had no idea that it would be on a ship of all things that would be going out into the sea. This surprise setup immediately changed the tactical scope of the night.
'I wonder how far out it will go, it can't go all the way out to the point we can't see the city, right?' Max wondered, trying to anticipate the limitations of the Black Hounds' plan.
There were a few tourist ships that would go out and come back, and in total that would take an hour or so, but the whole event was meant to last a total of four hours. Guests got there an hour beforehand, then enjoyed the main event for two hours and then there was one hour cooldown in the end before returning.
With that timing in his head, Max was trying to time things and calculate the risk involved in being isolated on the water for such an extended period.
