Aboard the Rum Cask

[wingfeather]

''True,'' he said watching all the sailors and deckhands scurry about the frozen wood planking, he looked back at Kastron slipping ever so slightly as the warmth from his arms melted the ice, ''no not blue they are nearly violet!''

[Chloriosus]

Kastron groaned slightly. "Is that blue or purple?", he asked. "I can't feel them anymore, anyhow. Or my nose. Did you know when you get too much cold poisoning your limbs fall straight off?"

[wingfeather]

''I heard of that, nearly happened to me once too. Also looks like it might happen again, this is almost worse than the ocean,'' he said squinting at the nearing land hoping they'd get there soon.

[Chloriosus]

If the boys were worried about somebody catching them, they had Jo more to fear, for the Captain was sleeping in the rum room, and Aunt Pessilys had gotten so bad a headache from beating up poor Weedsworth that she had to lay down with a lot of blankets to keep her warm. The men were covering themselves with whatever could be found. DK was wearing one of Aunts dresses with the bucket over his head and a patch of sail he had cut off from the main sail. Greenway angrily stomped about. “Door Knob!”, he yelled in a fit of rage.”this is the TWELTH time you’ve pulled this, and you STILL haven’t learned.” He wrestled DK to the floor, where said door knob began yelling once again. Kastron on the other hand did not feel like yelling at all. He too had gotten quite cold, and was reluctant to get off the mast because he would have to move and get even more cold. “I don’t like this.”, he told Eldor decidedly, although his shivering voice did not make it sound decided at all. “Why would you freeze off your limbs?”

[wingfeather]

''I don't want it to happen,'' Eldor protested, ''I just said it almost did. Anyway I don't see your Aunt or anyone else for that matter that would do us much harm,'' Eldor glanced around the deck once more for good measure, he spotted Gerenway beating up DK and also caught snippets of the boys outfit, ''weird,'' he muttered under his breath. ''Kass, im going down, I can't stay up here any longer,'' he began sliding dow the mast pole, gritting his teeth in pain as his fingers began to get ice burned.

[Chloriosus]

Kastron decided to avoid climbing down all together by just slipping down halfway and jumping, but he timed his jump to early, and crashed down on deck, where he lay slightly gasping. He looked up at Eldor who was still slipping down. “Please,”, he whispered, “ Do NOT land on me.”

[wingfeather]

Eldor smiled evilly and turned himself to jump straight over top Kastron, but he pushed himself hard and landed neatly beside him, ''next I wont be some merciful,'' he laughed.

[Chloriosus]

Kastron picked himself off the floor. "Thanks.", he said rather sarcastically. "Next time I won't fall where you can jump on me." He shivered. "Great, now the wind of falling off that thing has made me EVEN colder. What did you do when your limbs fell off?", he asked, looking at Eldor. "Or almost fell off."

[wingfeather]

 ''We'll see about that,'' he said raising an eyebrow. He shrugged, ''I got to warmth,'' he answered simply, ''nothing you can really do besides that.''

[Chloriosus]

"We could make a break for the galley." Kastron suggested. "Although I cannot promise you we won't run into aunt."

[wingfeather]

''Why don't we go to our cabin and find something warmer to put on,'' he asked threw chattering teeth.

[Chloriosus]

Kastron looked at Eldor through chattering teeth, his look of "seriously" still apparent on his face. "Your jestin' with me, right?"

[wingfeather]

''Don't think so,'' Eldor said with a raised eyebrow, ''why? Did you hide a dead body there or something.''

[Chloriosus]

Kastron spit onto the deck, but his spit froze and shattered on the iced boards. He looked at it rather suspiciously. "What I mean is even if I did hide a dead body in there, you wouldn't be able to find it."

[wingfeather]

''Well id rather take my chances than freeze my guts out,'' Eldor said as he began walking with determination towards there wrecked cabin.