BrimstoneBat

Mad Isle - Chapter Two ~~~~ April 1846 Offshore of unknown territory ~~~~ The hatch from the deck above has been heaved up and before we can even register our presumed stillness in the waters men descend from the ladder and orders are being shouted at us with grave ferocity. "Up! Up! Up!" Even as I clumsily falter to my feet there are bodies blocking off my vision. I join the crowd in looking around with a stupefied search for reason. We all wait for someone to voice his indignation. To yell out, to demand answers, to invoke a riot. We all have the potential, though none the valor. Moments before we are suddenly shuffled forward, I ca

Mad Isle - Chapter One ~~~~ April 1846 North Pacific Ocean ~~~~ Time has slipped away from me. I once knew days by the rise and fall of the sun, but I have not seen either in the better part of what to my best estimation must be a period of months. I have only just seen the light recently in this span of time and my head is fuzzy…distant in this recent reintroduction to the darkness. They have yielded me as cargo twice before, this one will mark three. Bodies are crowded all around me, huddled up on their benches and hunkered down into themselves, playing to the communal mood of disgruntlement, anxious curiosity, and an eerie calm that