Hmm… I'm having writer's block right now. I'll try to come up with more next chapter!
It was all a flash before Aoife's eyes. The storm came, and it was three times stronger. Lightning flared all around her, never hitting the ship. Then everything was black, and the next thing she knew she was lying on a shore somewhere.
"Where am I?" she asked groggily, sitting up. The day had come and gone, and it was near dark when she awoke. But that wasn't bothering her. Looking to her right, she saw Wokai sitting near her trying to start a fire. Immense relief spread over her.
"On some uncharted island someplace," the gunner, Parker, grumbled from somewhere on her other side. "I told you-"
"Don't get started," she half pleaded. "Yeah, I still don't believe in superstitions." She brushed herself off and briskly went towards Wokai to help him. "Did everyone… make it?"
"Seven men died, but that's not bad." Parker indicated the bodies on the sand. "You actually stopped breathing for a while. We thought you were… too. One man went missing. There are nine men including us left. We have tents set up. We'll try to get a raft going tomorrow."
She nodded and went to check on the bodies. The quartermaster was there, as well as three sailors (including Lazarus, the fool who Aoife could've pinned the blame on if she wanted to), two "powder monkeys" (made up the gun crews) and her surgeon, Jimmy.
"Jimmy died!" She yelled a loud string of unspeakable curses. "NOW WHO'LL STITCH US UP ALL THE #& TIME WE GO INTO BATTLE?"
"Calm down," Parker barked back. "We'll have the cook do it when needed. Or we can hire a seamstress."
"Ha ha, very funny," Aoife moaned. She was sure, though, that he was dead serious.
"Come, it's late, and we all need sleep." Wokai gently took her arm and led her to a tent set up. His shirt acted as the tent flaps. Luckily, the shirt was very big on him and he was getting to be a big man. She couldn't find the words to thank him as he went to sleep outside.
"Tomorrow, things will be better," she told him. Her voice sounded empty and hopeless.
"We're stranded together. We shall find a way out… as a captain and her crew." Wokai said this very quietly so the others would not hear.