Jonah Watch

Authors: Cady, Jack;

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“Men carrying binoculars moved from the wings to the flying bridge, thrust into a netherland of increasing wind, and separated from the interfering, dull red lights below. Adrian paced back and forth across sixty-nine degrees latitude in a search across a line. Phosphorescence spun from the bow. The muted stack rumbled, whispered. As temperatures skidded, lookouts on watch wrapped mufflers across their mouths, turned from a defensive oblique that put the wind most often on their covered ears and... raw cheeks, facing with greater frequency into the wind so that their breath would not fog the glasses. Each man searched his sector, silent, occasionally stomping feet against the deck and listening to the deepening tone and quality of the wind which worked across the vibrating strings of the halyards.
"Report everything," Conally instructed Brace.
"You can't see anything." "Them rafts are yellow," Conally said. "Water will be washing around them.MoreLess Read More Read Less