Landfall
"Captain!"
I jerked up slightly into a half rise at the urgency in the voice rousing me awake.
"Captain you're gonna want to see this!" Flynn said and I quickly got up and came to his side.
The first thing I saw were the clouds. It seemed as if the clouds had come down to the surface of the sea and formed a misty veil of glowing effervescence. The whales ahead of us abruptly dived and disappeared from view. They didn't resurface.
In a way I found myself missing them. They had been in a way a source of encouragement sent by God and now that they were gone I was left alone with my faith once again to fill in the gaps of my courage.
"I Am is still here. I've gone on before you and the way is clear."
The words from within felt like a promise and they helped build up my courage once more to face the unknowns of this world and be confident that I could weather through them with God as my strength. I gripped a hold of the wheel and Flynn relinquished it to me.
"Unlock the handguns and give everybody one. Give one shotgun to Jim and keep the other for yourself. You and Ortega will remain on board the ship."
Flynn eyed me speculatively, "Determined to go ashore then, are you, upon this strange coast that I feel lies ahead of us?"
"It's why we came Flynn. Hate to break it to you, but there might not be any treasure to be collected while we're out this time."
Flynn laughed, "Who needs money when you have adventure like this! Besides I knew it was a one-way trip when I signed on to this little venture."
I patted him on the back as he turned to leave. I had been blessed with a singularly great bunch of individuals to make up my crew. I couldn't have asked for better people.
I kept the Celestia's Prize headed for the glowing fog bank ahead. The fog didn't glow as much as the overhead canopy, but it obscured whatever lay beyond it. Time passed by as we blindly headed forward toward whatever destiny God had put in place for us.
Christina stepped into the wheelhouse and I glanced down to the gun on her hip. I smiled warmly at her as I asked, "Flynn show you how to use that?"
"Jim showed me." She said sounding nervous about something.
"What is it Christina?" I asked, as the fog started to dust over the ship's surface and visibility became zero.
"I'm to go ashore then with the rest?"