05-01-2022, 11:31 AM
The boat rocked. Everything slid to one side of the deck, then rocked back the other.
“GET THEM!” he hollered, because this was clearly an effective way to incentivize a boat that had just lost a man to do better.
The boat rocked harder. Hard enough to jettison Alice’s husband that Nathaniel fellow off the opposite side Edwin had flew off. Zechariah, in all the dignity and bravery that was called for in such a moment, was doing the only thing a reasonable man ought do: clinging to the mast, screaming.
“GET THEM!” he hollered, because this was clearly an effective way to incentivize a boat that had just lost a man to do better.
The boat rocked harder. Hard enough to jettison Alice’s husband that Nathaniel fellow off the opposite side Edwin had flew off. Zechariah, in all the dignity and bravery that was called for in such a moment, was doing the only thing a reasonable man ought do: clinging to the mast, screaming.
