Persuasion
Author: Guede Mazaka | ||||||
*** She bucked and stalled and more or less let her complaints stop them dead in the water. Too far, too long-the water was dreadful. She couldn't take it anymore. "Shhhh…shhhh…'course y'can," Jack reassured her. He drew a hand along her smoothest plank, feeling her move into the touch. A pat on the mast sent a little shudder through the entire boat. "Just a little more, lady. Just 'til Port Royal." She sighed and swamped in the next wave, but when he bent over to bail out the water, she suddenly leaped forward into the wind. Jack smiled. "That's it, girl. An' much thanks t'you." *** |