Chapter 4: United Again

Previously on "Shipwrecked" the herons encountered a ship sailing into the island and now the continuation.

"We might be able to get a ride from them away from the island", Stig said. The herons and Gilan were huddled around in a circle to discuss the course of action. "The might be bad, who knows where they came from", Jesper replied. "You do have a good point", thorn said, "but I think we are safe to ask them for a ride." It was decided to send thorn to the ship and meet with the other captain bargain a deal.

Thorn slowly walked to the far side of the island where the ship was docked; when he got there he nearly fainted. The ship was 2 times the size of the Erak's Wolfwind. In addition it had black triangle shaped sails with a weird white symbol on them and 12 strange mountings on the sides of the ship. "You there, are you part of the Herons Brother-Band", shouted the captain a large beefy man. "Why yes, how did you know?" Thorn shouted back, to help the other person hear. "We were sent to get you", the captain replied.

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The journey from where they were to wherever they were going was a slow tedious one Gilan thought. They were locked in the dark, musty, brig for "Protection" purposes. It wasn't that considering they were given all the food they could eat and they weren't chained to anything. It felt like 10 days have passed since the ship was at sea.

When the ship landed, the Herons were given a moment to stretch their legs before being led on land. They found themselves in a village of sorts. Everyone was wearing white robes and most of the buildings were made of stone. The Herons soon were led to an outside tavern in the outskirt of the village and there sitting on a bench was Hal dressed in his normal clothes. Ingvar ran up and gave Hal a huge hug that sounded as though it cracked his ribs. When Ingvar was done the herons now united gathered around a stone table and began describing what happened when the ship crashed.

When they were done, Hal said that he had a surprise for them and led them blindfolded to small cove. When the herons took off their blindfolds there stood in front of them was the heron. Hal said that he rebuilt it from help with the assassins over several months' time. It was just like the old one only better; Hal said that there were several improvements including cannons and a pulley system that would allow a user to get to the Crow's Nest. Instead of there being only one mast there were 2 spaced evenly apart each had their own flags. (Essentially it looks like the jackdaw and the heron combined.) When night came they all went to sleep cozily in quarters made out to the Herons. It had been an exciting day and each slept soundly until dawn came the next day.

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