Chapter 12. Captain Pump
Sam noticed that the stream running through the cave hardly had the energy to move.
Inside, the cave had smooth gray walls and a poorly shaped wharf. Sam thought the cave and wharf looked slightly melted, as though no one had bothered to finish them. Stranger still, a sleek wooden ship about one hundred feet long with the name Daisy painted on the stern floated a few feet above the cave floor. The ship bobbed slightly in rhythm with the air currents passing through the cave. Curiously, Sam saw no masts or sails on the ship.
As he and his two friends drew closer to it, he asked Bobbie Bear, “Is that one of the ships that fly between the worlds?”
“Yes, she is. Notice her stern. Ships in your world have one rudder that moves left and right. That ship also has a se
