@Nanashi77423 He did say "first rescue the kid", so I'd say he must have solved it somehow. Probably by borrowing a hammer and crowbar or something.
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It's lucky it's not a real world. Sailing ships could easily lose plenty of time due to adverse winds, so to travel a (normally) seven day journey by ship might easily take two weeks or more.
That darkness reminds me of the New Zealand horror short "The French Doors". Still one of the best horror shorts you can find on Youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Sy1n72yXI