Caraway of the Sea: Phoenix Rising: Book One by Madeline Burget

Author:Madeline Burget [Burget, Madeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The Storm

The walk back to camp was a long and disappointing one as dark clouds rolled in across the sea. A storm was certainly brewing, more than one. As it began to rain, I decided not to head back to camp—but I couldn’t go to the cove either. I wasn’t in the mood for one of Santoro’s lectures should he stop by, but I couldn’t face the confines of my tent.

There was a spot near the cove, a half-sunken wreckage about a quarter-mile off the coast that had washed up on some half-submerged rocks. I’d swam there from the cove a handful of times—it wasn’t far. Reaching the section of beach just before the cove’s entrance, I took off my boots and a few of my heavier weapons, burying them in the sand under my boots for safe keeping.

By the time I’d swam out to the wreckage, it was raining pretty heavily—not that I minded. I was thoroughly soaked from the swim, anyway. Sitting on a piece of the wreckage, I watched the storm washing over the island.

It was magnificent from this angle; sweeping, dark purple clouds broken up by streaks of lightning jetting across the sky. For a moment, it felt like I was at sea once again. I could almost hear Larsen playing his harmonica below deck, and the men complaining about how heavy the wet sails had been to take down.

My thoughts drifted back to that storm—and all that had come of it. Storms could be both beautiful and utterly devastating all at the same time. We’d lost a good man during that storm, but it hadn’t been the only thing we’d lost. Somehow, Marcel and I had lost what little had remained of our old selves as well.

My heart ached at the thought of my brother truly considering parting ways with me. We’d been together our entire lives. We had entered the world of piracy together, and endured many challenges into our adulthood.

When our family had been slaughtered, I hadn’t hesitated to chop off all of my hair to masquerade as a boy and follow Marcel to join our first crew. We only slept half the nights. The other half we spent practicing our swordplay. When the time came three years later and we finally found our family’s murderer again, we joined his crew and exacted our revenge nearly a year and a half later.

It had been my job those few months before the attack to make a list of pirates who were loyal to Sallows, and those who wished for a different Captain. Of course, after all that carnage, we had to spin the tale that Marcel was the leader and that I was just his younger brother—a mere accomplice in the mutiny.

As I had grown stronger, grown into myself as a woman and the legends we were creating, I had failed to see my brother’s attitude shift. I was so caught up in becoming the nightmare that Marcel wanted that I had failed

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