Landfall~Islands in the Aftermath by Scott B. Williams

Author:Scott B. Williams [Williams, Scott B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-23T05:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

WHEN REBECCA FIRST REALIZED something strange was going on, she thought it was some kind of a joke. She had been reading in her bunk to pass the time while her mom and the others worked on the catamaran, and the last thing she expected was to see the weird guy that had been living on the island suddenly aboard their boat. When he closed the hatch over her head, she was sure that he was just messing with her and that he would open it right back up. But when she asked him what he was doing, he said he was going for a sail. That didn’t make a bit of sense because she knew there was still a lot of work to be done on the other boat before they could go anywhere.

She tried pushing the hatch up but he was standing on it and wouldn’t budge. He wouldn’t move either, even when she yelled at him to get off of it and open it up. When she tried to open the door and go out into the main cabin, she discovered that it wouldn’t open either. Pushing on it with all her might, Rebecca was able to open it about an inch; just enough to reveal that it was lashed shut with rope. When she turned back to the hatch, he was still standing on it and pulling a length of rope back and forth over the top of it to lash it shut as well. Why he would keep doing this after she told him to stop, and why he didn’t want her to get out of her cabin, she did not understand. If it were a game, some of the others would be in on it too, but when she called out to Casey and Jessica and Grant to see if any of them were aboard with him, no one answered.

Despite that, she was still convinced it had to be some kind of joke until she heard the clanking of the anchor windlass over her cabin at the bow. She could see enough through the hatch to see Russell bent over it, working away with the long handle to crank in the rode. The slow rattle of chain falling down the hawse pipe and piling up in the chain locker was unmistakable proof that he was weighing anchor. Had her mom or Captain Larry really asked him to move the boat closer to the beach or something? Was he just doing that and having a little fun at her expense by joking around in the process? It was possible, but he had said going sailing, not just moving the boat. She didn’t believe for a minute that her mom would let a stranger like him take the Sarah J. out for a sail, especially not with her alone on board with him. She felt the boat slowly moving forward in the direction of the anchor and tried desperately to see what was going on.

There were two small port lights in her cabin, one on the starboard side and one to port.

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