Delight
“Thunder resonated overhead in the heavens like an echo of divine laughter. Rain struck his rough-hewn face.The pirates had played a joke on their captain.Actually, it was meant to be a tribute.They had taken the castle rowboat in the loch and lovingly converted it into a full-rigged miniature version of Douglas's last sloop, the Delight, which had been wrecked on the coast of Cuba during his final raid.Phelps, the ship's carpenter, had even mounted a topsail and prow carved into the shape of a ...black fire-breathing dragon. The reflections of tiny brass cannons gleamed upon the darkened water.Douglas enjoyed approximately fifteen seconds of nostalgia before panic set in. "And how the hell am I supposed to explain this to the princess?" he shouted. "What will the gentle folk of the glen think to see a pirate ship sailing the peaceful waters of their loch?"The loch, in fact, was anything but peaceful, rain slashing the surface. A rising wind churned the water into powerful waves that pounded the shore.MoreLess
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