Robert's father earned his living sailing out onto the ocean with the fishing fleets, as for his mother, she was nothing but an ordinary housewife, after all, the father's income was enough for a decent life, even if not a stable one, because of the danger of the boundless ocean.
Even if these parts were relatively safe from the threat of monsters, the open water itself was dangerous because of the invisible currents beneath its calm surface.
Those currents sometimes grew turbulent and turned into raging zones, or worse, into whirlpools that swallowed the ships themselves... but that last one was very rare.
And while Robert reached his second year under his home's roof, his father was out on the water fishing to provide a decent life for his newly formed family... after all, he'd put a lot of effort into building it, from asking for his beloved's hand to buying the house and a boat of his own, and hiring people instead of being the one hired.
