The Merman, My Man by Black Velvet Chapter 12
“A storm! “
“A storm is coming! “
The crew shouted from outside. The boat started shaking even more violently than before.
It seemed that Gary had exited the bathroom, so I quickly got dressed. I hid in my cabin and locked the cabin door from the inside.
The storm came too suddenly, even professional sailors couldn’t predict its arrival.
With the chaotic winds outside, the rain droplets slammed onto the windows and its trails could be seen against the clear glass.
Suddenly, I saw a dark silhouette speed past my window. Its speed was shocking, unlike the speed of a normal human being. I thought it was just something being blown away by the wind.
All of a sudden, I saw a hand similar to a human’s stuck on the window, the spaces between its five fingers were connected with skin.
That was a merperson’s webbed claw!
But the moment I blinked, the hand disappeared as if I had hallucinated it. I attentively looked at the window and traced the area where the hand was. But all that was left were the streaks of rain droplets.
Was I seeing things because I was too tired? I was definitely exhausted. I had been through so much in just the past several hours, so much so that my head felt heavy.
If I were to get on deck in this situation, I would only add to the troubles of the crew. I may as well rest, after all I would still need to face Gary after I woke up.
I tiredly closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
After sleeping for what felt like an eternity, I felt a chilly gust of wind against my skin causing me to wake up. Some time during my sleep, my window had opened and the sea breeze was blowing into my cabin.
I sneezed due to the cold so I got off the bed to close the window. While doing so, I saw the clock on the wall, and it was barely past six in the morning. I had only slept for half an hour?
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