Chapter 4

The tension was so think you could cut it with a pendulum. An increasingly frustrated Tuomas stared Captain Jukka dead in the face.

“Listen to me, Jukka-“

“That’s Captain Jukka, ya skallaywag-“

Tuomas ran out of patience before Jukka could finish. He raised his right fist and punched the captain in the side of his head. He couldn’t see it coming with his eye patch covering his right eye, and his head was knocked through the open window. Jukka was dazed, but not confused.

“YARRRG YA SKALLAYWAG. YOU KNOW WHAT THE PUNISHMENT FOR MUTINY BE?”

Tuomas hated himself as much as he hated Jukka, but he would do what had to be done. He threw the pirate to the ground, took off of his pirate sandals, threw them out the window and forced his own holey socks over Jukka’s bare feet.

“NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS, BITCH!”

Jukka was stunned. He couldn’t believe what disrespect had been bestowed upon him by a junior officer. He got up to walk back to the steering wheel, when he noticed his toes poking out of Tuomas’ socks, and had a sickening revelation: he had been wrong all along. Tuomas read the look on the humbled pirate’s face, and shoved him out of the way.

“That’s right,” he thought to himself indignantly. “I am the Oceansoul and I am at the helm.”

Though victorious for now, he still had a long way to go to Fort Bargain-bin, and hoped he could make it in time.

I tied myself to the wheel
The winds talk to my sails,
not me
(Come to me)
Somewhere there my fate
revealed
I hear but how will I see