The Navigator by Sky Erin Michelle; Brown Steven;

Author:Sky, Erin Michelle; Brown, Steven;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Trash Dogs Media LLC
Published: 2019-08-05T14:00:00+00:00

commission!

Wendy could hardly believe it. She was an officer in the Royal Navy. A real officer, just like the ones at Bartholomew Fair—the ones who had laughed at her all those years ago. And not any officer, but the navigator of England’s only flying ship! The gentle wind caressed her hair as she looked out across the unexplored mysteries of Neverland. The living green scent of magic filled her senses—even better, she thought, than the rich tang of the sea.

It didn’t seem possible.

Wait, it wasn’t possible.

The thought brought her up short. Hook might be willing to pay the price of her commission, but that didn’t mean it would be permitted. Women weren’t even allowed to be sailors in the Royal Navy, let alone officers.

But the captain wouldn’t lie to her, would he?

No, she refused to believe it. He was a man of his word. A man of honor. He might not fully appreciate her. He might not even like her. But he would not make her a solemn promise without the intention of carrying it through. He would find a way to accomplish it, one way or another, once they returned to England.

Still, she resolved to requisition a blue officer’s coat from the quartermaster just as soon as they were able to land the ship. If they ever landed.

Neverland was not the sort of small, deserted island one reads about in stories of shipwrecked sailors. Wendy understood that now. It was an island in the same way that Britain was an island—a vast and diverse landscape that spread out beneath her as far as the eye could see.

In fact, she only knew it was an island because Peter had said that it was.

They had been flying toward the mountains for what felt like forever. The fields that had started out as a patchwork quilt in varying shades of green had given way to more exotic colors. What sort of vegetable could possibly reflect the sun in this silver sheen? Or that sparkling amethyst? Was it some exotic blood vine glistening scarlet in the field below? Or were they merely poppies in full, eternal bloom, stretching unbroken from one perfect corner to the other?

This, of course, made Wendy think of Poppy, her companion dog at Hook’s estate, which reminded her of her young friend, Colin, and how much he would have loved it here. But that, in turn, made her think of Nicholas. He had died, she suddenly realized, only yesterday. She had worked through the night to prepare The Pegasus—they all had—and then Blackheart had appeared, forcing them to leave Nicholas with The Tiger. There had been no time for a funeral. Her skeleton crew would bury him at sea on the way back home.

For all Wendy knew, they were doing that very thing right this instant, his body slipping forever beneath the waves instead of standing here beside her where he belonged, gasping and pointing, while she smiled and wondered about poppies.

The full force of Wendy’s grief slammed into

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