A Most Personal Property (Ganymede Quartet Book 1) by Glass Darrah

Author:Glass, Darrah [Glass, Darrah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 3H Press
Published: 2014-09-23T22:00:00+00:00

On the last Wednesday of the month, they came home to a new issue of Pals, and thus a new Drake’s Progress. Henry could not hide his excitement.

“You’ll read it to me, won’t you?” he asked. “You’ll do the voices?”

Martin laughed. “Of course, Sir. I’ll do whatever you like.”

Last month, they’d left Theo and George climbing down from the mizzenmast in the midst of a terrible storm, cutlasses drawn, preparing to fight the enraged kraken that had destroyed a pirate ship and was threatening to wreck the Dauntless.

Theo and George held onto one another as they clambered down onto the heaving deck and surveyed the scene before them. Through needles of driving rain, Theo saw the kraken’s tentacles smash against the foredeck of the Dauntless and watched helplessly as his men slipped and slid, some falling overboard in their efforts to avoid the monster’s flailings. The Dauntless must be protected at all costs, or all lives would be forfeit.

“Follow me!” Martin made Theo sound commanding and noble, and it was easy to believe George would obey. One of the kraken’s huge tentacles was wrapped amidships, spanning the entire deck, and they attacked this ghastly appendage with vigor, lashing at it with their cutlasses. The entire ship tilted as the kraken reacted in fury and pain, and they were knocked off their feet and might well have both gone overboard if George hadn’t sheathed his cutlass, grabbed a dangling rope, and caught Theo’s wrist in a death grip.

“That was good luck,” Henry said, amused by the improbability.

His sword hand free, Theo continued to hack away at the kraken, which stubbornly refused to let go of the Dauntless until at last Theo had severed its massive limb. The monster withdrew with a terrible shriek, descending back into the depths in a roiling, bloody cloud.

Martin frowned at the page. “Do you know, Sir? Do krakens or, rather, squid…do they make noises?”

“Huh.” Henry didn’t know. “They might, I guess?” It seemed fitting for a sea monster to make some sort of noise, whether it was realistic or not.

As the monster sank back towards hell, the storm abated. The winds calmed and the black clouds dissipated and all that remained of the maelstrom was a misty rain. The crew of the Dauntless immediately set about putting the ship in order, making note of the damages so they might report them to Theo. The enormous tentacle remained draped across the deck, seeping dark blood. A dozen able-bodied seaman banded together and heaved the huge limb overboard with a great splash.

The heroes stood on the deck, breathing hard, chests heaving, covered in gore.

“Is any of that blood yours?” Martin asked in his Theo voice.

“I don’t think so, Sir,” he answered in George’s voice. “I think it’s all kraken blood, Sir.”

“I need to be sure,” Martin-as-Theo insisted. And while the rest of the crew began the salvage effort, bringing surviving men and pirate plunder on board, Theo took George below to his cabin. Theo took off his own

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