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So on and he wanted no part of it The Captain had charged him to look out for the ship and that was just what he would do

Flynn backed up to the wheelhouse wall and out of the side of his lish for pity's sake! This ain't Mexico or wherever it is that you coa's sh the brokenof the wheelhouse

Flint gritted his teeth hard for a e that the Salvadorian had a point

"Give it a good ten count and then give the Celestia's Prize all the throttle she's got!"

"I will do it Senor!" Ortega responded with

Flynn stepped away from the shattered out s of the wheelhouse andthe side of the boatropes with a sharp knife he pulled from his belt

The front end of the Celestia's Prize fell away from the dock and it became obvious what Flynn was up to He raced for the last rope and sliced through it as the on looking crowd calued and started for the boat in mass intent to stop it from its unplanned exodus from port

The Celestia's Prize roared to life and jolted forward like a runner off the starting block The shotgun blasts were a rhyth through the onrushing crowd in an unexpected display of firepower

Free of the dock the Celestia's Prize kicked up a foaed out for the open sea beyond the harbor Two of the whaling ships atteive pursuit, but the task was iven the lione era in con not reliant on wind power for propulsion

The Celestia's Prize was a dot on the horizon, with any hope of catching her gone as she began to be cloaked by the per bank that lay offshore The thalers heaved to and re-anchored in defeat

He began to chant out in an old language best left forgotten and the runes carved into the low