Chapter Four
Mari saw that Will had caught her necklace and sighed with relief that she wouldn't have to go after it. She had sworn on pain of death to never lose that necklace, it was the only thing she had left of her family, and her dear brother. She clambered into the crows nest to see if she could see anything and to think. Ever since she had first met Will she had had some suspicions about him. For one thing he looked almost exactly like her, except with male characteristics. As Orion flew up and landed in her lap she stroked the bird subconsciously. As her thoughts were elsewhere entirely.
Marieah Turner began beating her brother incessantly trying to get him to let her down.
"Let me go! I want a birdie!" She shouted and then she grabbed his hair and pulled as hard as she possibly could. He dropped her unceremoniously n the gang plank.
"We are not getting you a bird! We don't have the time or the money! Now get on board that ship unless you want me to drag you up there too!" Will snapped. Grumbling and muttering a lot of not-so-nice-words under her breath she boarded the ship and they had set off. She remembered staying mad at her brother for most of the voyage. She had just gone to look for Will and apologize when they had been attacked. There was a tremendous boom and she had been plunged into the frigid water. She surfaced and gasped for air, but then choked as it was mostly smoke. She found a piece of driftwood and settled on it and she could see the outline of a big black ship. She paddled for it but got caught in the current and sucked into the under tow, water filled her lungs, and she gasped and grabbed at something that was hard and smooth with a few bumps here and there. She choked and spluttered as she got a firmer hold, before she passed out she got a good look at what had saved her, it was a sea turtle.