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Shipwrecks of the Caribbean. #
Shipwrecked
As captain of this sinking ship I must go down with it
As we part ways don't hold on to your resentment
These flames are untamed so run
Before this smoke fills your lungs
I've failed more times than I've tried
If you haven't noticed I've already died
So run find safety
And don't try to save me
As my scorched body meets the sea
The pain is so unsettling
As my wounds meet the cold salt water
I can't stay conscience much longer
Through the sun rays a blurry figure
Reaches out for me
Our hands collapsed
Maybe there's more for me perhaps
This was the first time I held the whole world in my hand
And this would be the last time I let go
My sorrows are heavier than you know
Weighing me down Sinking
Drowning and over thinking
This watery grave is not yours so don't be brave
Run
Before the salt water fills your lungs
I've failed more times than I've tried
If you haven't noticed I've already died
Run
The ship lurches, tosses. It groans, like the death cry of a great whale, before belly-flopping onto the ocean with and intensity to cause its ribs to crack. Seawater splashes in through the gunports, salty, the taste of a beckoning grave. Unlashed cargo rolls, barrels shattering open on cabin walls, their watered-down rum leaking through the fresh, splintered holes in the hull.
And in the middle of it, you, caught like a stray die in a game of Liar's Dice, tossed around in the dark, just waiting for the time you roll a single lonesome dot.
The ship rolled, caught by the waves again - only for it to be heaved into the air once more. You can bearly hear your fellow sailors above the way the ship yowls and complains. You reach for a hanging hammock, and hold on for dear life. Splinters spray across your back as something causes the far hull to cave in... and then you're briefly weightless, your feet leaving the ground, even a one-tonne bundle of spare sails by your side rising into the air...
This time when you crash into the ground, the deck shatters beneath your feet, and you barely manage to hold on to the hammock as it rips apart. Your feet run helplessly over the void, catching on a shattered rib of hull just before you lose your grip for good-
And something - something big, and cascading with water, and an eerie luminous green - slams through the deck from above, a wave of shattered planks and twisted iron grating carried with it. An unlashed cannon tumbles towards you, and you duck just in time, its barrel pulverising the wood you're holding onto - and then you're in the ocean-
You're in the ocean.
The dark, deep ocean.
And you're struck, suddenly, by its coldness. It's vastness. The unending blue and black in every direction you look, save the disappearing pale turquoise to one side and the yawning void on the other, and the two halves of your ship, your lifeboat, split into two like a child's toy and trailing bubbles and split masts...
It's calm down here. A deathly, incomprehensible calm, in the face of a calamity you've yet to fathom. There was no ship. No call to battle, no report of a storm, and yet...
And yet, a dark shadow slips its way over the depth. You see it, outlined in the flittering rays of a sun so distant it's almost a memory...
You turn, a slow sweeping motion... and stare up...
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I heard it's Smaugust and @pencilcat made this list of prompts, which reminded me that I have this fish dragon from a recent commission <3 Character is Keyser owned by Volp!
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You ever just move from one side to the other when reading and your body creaks like a dilapidated ship seconds from sinking.
Not even cracking, creaking. Rusty hinged bones.
I did all the Don’t Starve furrys! They are too cute, I want all plush lol
Fiz todos os furrys do Don’t Starve! Eles são fofos demais, quero todos de pelúcia lol