Nocturna League (Episode 1: The Witching Book) by Kell Inkston

Author:Kell Inkston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, magic, witches, sailing, ocean adventure, pirate adventure, seafaring adventure

Minutes later, The Captain bursts from the room with his arms bent around the shoulders of invisible figures, one at each side. “Yes! It has been a long time since I’ve had a bowl of porridge! To the kitchen immedia- Oh, Miss Ketiere, Mr. Masthaven. What an unexpected surprise! How did you find this island? Could it be the two of you are now sailing together privately? How scandalous.” The Captain says with a tone neither of his sailors have heard him with before – fakeness, as if he’s experiencing a lie.

Colette looks to The Captain’s sides and squints. “Captain, you okay, sir?” She asks, the rifle hanging limply from her slender hands.

He laughs. “Okay? I’m feeling brilliant! I’m home!”

Colette and Jim exchange shocked, dumbfounded glances. “In all due respect sir, what the hell is wrong with you?”

“Haha! Nothing, my dear! I have everything I need,” he looks to his left shoulder, “isn’t that right?” he asks to the invisible figure.

Jim just stares on as Colette waves her hands about her head in confusion. “What?! Captain, did you get the book?”

He tilts his head a bit to the side. “What book?”

“The book we came all this damn way for, sir! Vuuya’s witching book!”

“Ahh, well that shouldn’t be a problem anymore,” The Captain says as the guard and townsperson stand to the side with knowing smirks.

“Sir! We came here for the book! What happened in there?!”

The Captain bends his head forward in thought. “Oh… oh! Pardon me. Yes, Vuuya, I met her and she offered to grant my wish,” The Captain says, joyously shaking two invisible figures under his arms.

Colette stares at The Captain with a cross between confusion and disgust as Jim’s features slowly sharpen. “Sir,” she says, “There’s no one under your arms, sir! You’ve gone senile!”

The Captain checks both his arms again. “They seem quite real to me, Colette…Oh?” he turns to his left and raises his ear. “…No, worry not, my beloved. It’s obvious she’s just a bit off her nerves, probably from the salt sickness. Tell me Colette: are you, perhaps, salty?”

“S-What?! The hell I am salty! Turn around and get the book!”

“I see no need for that, my little croissant- the task is done; I am home. Please, just come with me and let’s share at the dinner table, this way!” The Captain gestures with a hand to follow him out of the ziggurat.

Colette strides right up and smacks him across the face, shocking the two villagers watching. “What’s your malfunction? I join this crazy ass ship with the pretense that you’d teach me to fight as well as you, to become an upstanding figure of command! And here you are playing house with imagina-”

“Colette,” Jim says softly to get her attention.

“-ary friends as if we didn’t have a job to do that everyone’s paychecks relied on. I don’t know why I-”

“Colette,” Jim says again.

“-I even care about any of that. It’s not like you pay me! I feel bad enough dragging Grancis all around this horrible ocean for my sake, but you’re proving to be a huge pain.

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