“I can’t see them!”, he shouted.
“They’re hiding among the vegetation!” Teach slipped cautiously towards him. An arrow flew over his head and got deeply stuck into the wood.
“What shall we do?”
“Let’s wait.”
“What about the others? Dead?” Johnny hoped they weren’t. That would be the limit to make things worse. He turned his eyes to Vogler’s body, as if hoping the pirate would get up and throw himself into the bamboos, telling that he had pretended being dead just to catch the Kalinagos by surprise. He could expect that from a guy like him, who used to have a breezy look always spreading on his face. Instead, what he could see left him horrified, bringing him back to reality. An arrow had pierced through the pirate’s neck. It was sticking out like a broken branch, held partially togethe
