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Siren was sprawled on a few boxes that were almost flattened. She had been going over their finances when the ship rocked violently and tossed her from her seat at her desk. Her papers were strewn all over the room that she was in.
Wanting to go up on deck to get to her daughter, she attempted to stand. She screamed in pain as one of the bones in her left thigh broke the skin. A large reddish-brown stain began to grow on her light green skirt as she fell back down onto the boxes, losing consciousness.
Kevlin was up in the crow’s nest just behind the prow looking aft. The wind was strong and he had to hold on tight. Preferring to be on the main mast, even though the third mast from the bow was just as good and allowed him just as good a view of the sea, because he figured it would be safer up here than down below on the deck with all those waves buffeting the sides of the ship sometimes venturing over the sides to roll up and over the top of the deck.
He watched the deck, and the sea with equal fascination. It began to rain while he was watching. At first it was a light drizzle gradually falling heavier as time passed until every minute would soak him anew from head to toe. A dazzling display of lightening came shortly thereafter as the waves and water of the sea continually picked up the ship, then dropped it, then picked it up and dropped it again.
The waves seemed to know what they were doing. It felt terrible up in the crow’s nest and Kevlin threw up many times from the constant bending of the mast causing the crow’s nest to swing back and forth. His head swooned and his eyes wanted to pop from his head due to the centripetal forces in play. The deck had seaweed scattered in many different places and to his horror he could see his daughter walking about the deck.
Alexandra was also there, but it did not seem that she noticed too much considering she spent most of her time throwing up over the side of the ship due to her sea sickness. Kalima looked frightened as she slipped and fell many times as the sea seemed to grab and pull at her. He started to climb down from the crow’s nest when the ship was picked up by a large wave and tossed onto its side, which caused the main mast to snap.
Kevlin was plunged into the depths of the sea as he hung on for his life to the rope netting attached to the crow’s nest. He swallowed a lot of salt water and felt sick to his stomach. Kevlin was forced to let go when the ship righted itself. Dazed and in pain from being bounced around by the sea he noticed that he could no longer see his daughter on the deck, Alexandra could not be seen at all. Spitting out salt water he assumed that Alexandra was somewhere in the sea, and thus he had a grim resolve that she must be dead.
After this resolution he finally realized his pain was more for his twisted and broken left arm that had gotten caught in the netting attached to the crow’s nest. Kevlin could not see anyone on deck including the ship’s wheelman who had been at the wheel before the storm had begun. He climbed down from the crow’s nest after releasing his arm from the netting and went to check on his child, wife and the captain.