Sea of Thieves_Athena's Fortune by Chris Allcock

Author:Chris Allcock [Allcock, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683834878
Amazon: 1683834879
Publisher: Insight Editions
Published: 2018-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

RAMSEY

The sky was the deep blue of a sapphire as the Magpie’s Wing sluiced across the waves, surrounded by a veritable armada of merfolk who darted and danced around and under her hull. The lower decks were filled with their strange, keening wail that Mercia assured the others was harmless. She imagined it must have made the ship look like a mother whale surrounded by its young, although the mood aboard was rather tenser than the playful scene might have suggested.

Rathbone, naturally, demanded that she and Ramsey finally sit down and supply them with some explanation of everything to which he and Shan had been unwitting accomplices in the last few days. Ramsey refused to linger on details and insisted that they get under way at once.

Rathbone also wanted to raid the remains of Douglas’s hideout for anything that might have survived the cave-in and could fetch a pretty penny. Any gang of pirates that size surely hoarded some valuable treasures, he insisted, until Mercia reminded him that at least two of the objects had been cursed in some way. The prospect of winding up with a petrified arm of his own seemed to have quieted him, at least for now.

Their destination was distant, and Ramsey wasn’t sure how slowly they would have to travel, lest they risk leaving the merfolk behind.

As it turned out, they needn’t have worried—they left the island at a crawl, with but a single sail unfurled, and their new companions surged ahead of them almost immediately, flipping and waving. Is that the best you can do, they seemed to say, and they increased their speed until the Magpie’s Wing was sailing along at a tidy clip. Only when the horizon was free of both land and ship alike did Ramsey allow the others to go below as he kept watch at the helm, giving Mercia a chance to explain the truth behind their journey.

No sooner had the three sat themselves around the map table than Rathbone demanded to know all about their destination and what their reward might be, given that they’d risked life and limb to free the prisoners. Shan, by contrast, was rather more interested in the merfolk themselves and how it was that they’d come to ally themselves with the crew of the Magpie’s Wing.

Mercia decided to start at the beginning—the very beginning, in fact, explaining how Ramsey had become taken with the idea of somehow possessing, or at least controlling, the magic that seemed to permeate the Sea of Thieves. How the ransacking of their hideout had made him eager to find any kind of trick, some advantage over anyone else who might seek to steal from him or challenge his authority.

She told them of the many fruitless hours she’d spent in taverns listening to prattle and nonsense before finally stumbling upon the old woman, and of the real reason for her trip down into the shipwreck. Finally, savoring the thrill of a good story, she explained in great detail their descent into the network of underwater passages.

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