Chapter Thirty-Four.
I reached the ship before Caleb and headed below deck to the Captain’s quarters where I began pacing the length of the room, replaying my thoughts over and over in the back of my mind, hoping that Caleb wouldn’t follow me and decide to stay above deck so that I could avoid having to confront him, having to tell him how I felt. I had removed my hat and boots for what I knew was to come later on, for when I would have to change for Ben to remove my scales. I paused when I heard Rebecca yelling. “The dead should stay dead!” she cried, not bothering to care if the rest of the crew was gathered around them, observing or not. I gazed in the direction of the stairs, the door that stood open beyond them and the flickering orange lights of the lamps that lay underneath it. Caleb didn’t reply, hi
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