Chapter 29 Taking Precautions

• Cook looked panic. Jumping in one direction to help the men. Then the other. Waving his hands in desperate panic, he patted a man near his feet reassuringly. Then he bolted down the stairs to retrieve something.
• I heard a dull grunt and then nothing. I winced. Watching Lucien carefully to see if he’d go check to see if the sounds had been Cook. Even I had heard them over the sounds of the tormented men on the ship’s deck.
• He had to have! But nothing.