Stronger Than Glass
Sequel to Cold as Glass
End of the Glass Trilogy
A Captain's Adventure
Chapter 10
Quietly we slipped between two huge icebergs, the sky was just barely lighting up, and snow flakes littered eth skies and drifted down to us and our freezing crews.
I glanced across at Pintel, Ragetti, and the Monkey Jack, who each sat side by side shaking, with their arms wrapped about their torsos. But covered in frost, and not attempting to brush off the frost developing upon their faces.
"No one said anything about cold," Pintel sent me a small glare of desperation-obviously wanting the blanket that belonged to Sirius I had wrapped about my small frame.
But I only carried it because I had given my blanket to Tia Dalma, who was freezing, and my husband refused to let me catch a cold, or act heroic in these temperatures.
"I'm sure there must be a good reason for our suffering," Ragetti mused, despite the fact even his wooden eyeball was beginning to freeze over. But the puffs from his warm breath and Pintel's breath, as they spoke, was beginning to look comical.
Pintel then huffed loudly to Ragetti," Why don't that obeah woman bring Jack back the same way she brought back Barbossa?"
Tia Dalma settled down next to me upon the bench, hissing to them-after overhearing their conversation," Because Barbossa was only dead."
But with her curious answer, I twisted my head in interest towards her odd answer. Yet I hadn't quite understood this as well.
"Jack Sparrow is taken, body and soul, to a place not of death, but punishment. The worst fate a person can bring upon himself, stretching on forever. That's what awaits at Davy Jones' Locker."
And just as abruptly as she sat down by me, as got up and resumed her now routine march to the other side of the small ship.
"Yeah," Ragetti brought my attention back to him as he spoke now," I knew there was a good reason."
We were all quiet for a moment, before William hollered in a hoarse tone," Beaux, we need the map."
I groaned loudly, and began to shuffle over to the captain's corroders, which was crowded with Tai Haung, William, and Sirius as they sat around a table.
I pulled the map out from its warm place underneath my jacket, as I stroke up to the boys. Then I unfurled it across the table in one mighty release. And watched it as it perfectly unrolled from my grasp.
We each glanced down at the map curiously, and then murmured, explaining to the boys about how I noticed that the map was not set," And how do you suppose we read this?"
William shuddered in-between Tai and myself, as he reached out still spinning and adjusting the different parts of the map," Nothing here is set, as you say."
"These can't be as accurate as modern charts," Sirius rushed, as he tried not to speak for too long and use up precious energy. "But it's obvious it leads to more than one place."
As William's hands kept twisting and turning the pieces, I kept my eyes upon it, trying to see if I found anything familiar or a pattern of sorts. But then I found a series of words come into alignment, making me smack Will's hands away before I took over twisting the pieces.
And finally the pieces came together. And over my shoulder, I heard Will read," Over the edge. Over Again. Sunrise sets. Flash of green."
I had remembered hearing that phrase before. Flash of green. But I knew who I had heard it from before, thus I ripped the map up from the table, and rushed over to my father, with Sirius, Will, and Tai rushing behind me in worry and curiosity of what I was going to do.
"Hector Barbossa," I hissed, as I rushed up to the other end, and threw the map roughly into my father's chest," do you care to interpret?"
He starred at me oddly for a second, as he unraveled the map, and starred down at the writing I had found.
"Doesn't flash of green ring any bells?" I hissed again, wanting to smack him and tell me. After all he had been the one who had a conversation about a flash of green with my father when we were in France. But he refused to speak of it with Capitaine Chevalle, who brought it up.
My father smirked, obviously loving the fact that I was a good listener. Then he glanced over at Gibbs," Ever gazed upon the green flash, Master Gibbs?"
"I reckon I seen my fair share." Gibbs answered, as he looked out at the water, next to Elizabeth who was curled up in a small ball and wrapped up in two blankets.
"Happens on rare occasion," Gibbs explained further," The last glimpse of sunset a green flash shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without ever seeing it. Some claim to have seen it who ain't. And some say-"
"It signals when a soul comes back to this world from the dead," Pintel added in a loud voice, making all of us look at him.
Gibbs let out a disgruntled sigh, making Pintel shivering and murmur," Sorry."
"Trust me," my father rolled up the map and handed it back to me," it's not getting to the land of the dead that's the problem. It's getting back."
I rolled my eyes at my father, who always had a flair for the dramatic.
But as I turned around to glance back at the three men who had followed me, I found Tai nervously looking at my father-like he was a mad man. Will was visibly shaken. And Sirius…well lets just say he wasn't amused with my father's antics.
But who would be? Only a twisted person, like myself, would find humor in my father's odd ways. But then again, I'm sure he finds humor in what I do as well.
My father adjusted the direction of the rudder, sending us into a dark ice cavern, which stretched higher than most building I had seen. But the sun was nearly completely blocked out, as we drifted farther and farther into it.
Yet as this point, I felt an oddly dreadful feeling as if…this was the point of no return.