Prologue
The fight was intense; a larger boy against a smaller girl... his friends were cheering him on, but she was winning. A storm was also brewing, the winds reaching gale force. The girl ducked under the boys punch and nailed him, just a few inches below the belt.
One of his friends yelled out. "Hey!!!! That's not fair!!!!"
The girl turned around, put her hand on her hip, looked at him and yelled right back "And letting someone twice my size attack me is? 'All's fair in love and war', baby, and if you can't take it get out of the ring."
The rest of the boys, taking offence to her well-earned bravado, grabbed her by the arms and dragged her to a lifeboat. "Lets see how Little Witch fares in the ocean all alone and in this weather." They cut the ropes holding the boat and set it adrift.
The girl watched helplessly as her lifeboat drifted away from the ocean- liner. As the storm's intensity increased around her she also watched helplessly as lightening struck the ocean-liner and started a fire. She thought she saw people getting into lifeboats, but she couldn't be sure. She also thought she saw a figure on the highest point of the ship, arms raised as though calling the lightning. As the lifeboat drifted away... she lost consciousness....
The fight was intense; a larger boy against a smaller girl... his friends were cheering him on, but she was winning. A storm was also brewing, the winds reaching gale force. The girl ducked under the boys punch and nailed him, just a few inches below the belt.
One of his friends yelled out. "Hey!!!! That's not fair!!!!"
The girl turned around, put her hand on her hip, looked at him and yelled right back "And letting someone twice my size attack me is? 'All's fair in love and war', baby, and if you can't take it get out of the ring."
The rest of the boys, taking offence to her well-earned bravado, grabbed her by the arms and dragged her to a lifeboat. "Lets see how Little Witch fares in the ocean all alone and in this weather." They cut the ropes holding the boat and set it adrift.
The girl watched helplessly as her lifeboat drifted away from the ocean- liner. As the storm's intensity increased around her she also watched helplessly as lightening struck the ocean-liner and started a fire. She thought she saw people getting into lifeboats, but she couldn't be sure. She also thought she saw a figure on the highest point of the ship, arms raised as though calling the lightning. As the lifeboat drifted away... she lost consciousness....