[pnpgm] Update #57 - Raddok

Bessie Hadley eleabess at sbcglobal.net
Fri Feb 8 19:58:48 CET 2019


[2:15-2:16 approx.]

Raddok is returning to his shelter amidships when Dorhak calls out to everyone to gather. After hearing that the Captain wants to capture the pirate ship ahead of them, intact, he decides that maybe he should be careful about using the ring & causing any more fire damage that might put risk to the plan. 

He watches in surprise as the fore ship suddenly veers east toward shore and runs aground about twenty or thirty feet from the beach. There appears to be fighting on its decks - very confusing to Raddok, since no one seemed to be there but pirates. He glances back at the now somewhat-distant pirate vessel behind them - it seemed to be at a dead stop, its masts & sails down. 

"We're winning?" he thinks. But where's Arawn? If he's on the ship now far behind them, they will have to turn back & rescue him. His thoughts race. He might still be able to use the ring, but he suddenly remembers he could not see why the ship in front turned - was there a friend there? Wait - the faerry - Fremea! And Z'leyra had just disappeared, too. If they're invisible then other friends might be also. He couldn't risk firing the ring when they might be hit. He got angry - if he saw a mass of archers - or any pirates - approach against his friends, he would be pleasure to shoot a very long-range fisted punch with the fire ring when he could see those villains' faces, nearly beside their own ship - followed by his great sword. The warrior in him was smoldering now.

All these thoughts occur within a minute or so, tumbling into his consciousness. He turns, adrenalin rising, still crouched behind the lockers, to look at Dorhak nearby, waiting to see the Captain's next step of the plan. He will go wherever Dorhak orders him to go. He wants action!



Bess L. Hadley 




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