The interior of the giant floating wooden duck looks like a time traveller's yard sale. Everywhere there are items from every conceivable era - bronze statues from the time of the Pharaohs, paintings from the Rennaisance, pottery from the Ming Dynasty. He even spies an iPad sitting in a corner, but when he tries to turn it on finds the battery to be dead.

So it's a museum then. He looks around, wondering what to do next. The ship creaks and groans around him, and he finds himself amazed that it manages to remain afloat with the burden of all of it's treasures.

Eventually he makes his way over to a porthole and spots the ferry, still anchored about a hundred metres away. His escape from that place remains fresh in his mind, evidenced by the harshness in his lungs from the exertion of swimming over here. As he looks he can see the captain and parrot on the deck of the ship. They seem to be waving at him. He can't tell if they're being belligerent or congratulatory.

He decides he doesn't care and turns away from the porthole, setting about to find the controls for this vessel.

And while he's at it, a map would certainly help...

Twenty Second chapter in an ongoing serial based on @mariannewest's daily #freewrite writing prompts. Here are the previous chapters listed below:

Chapter One>Chapter Two>Chapter Three>Chapter Four

Chapter Five>Chapter Six>Chapter Seven>Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine>Chapter Ten>Chapter Eleven>Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen>Chapter Fourteen>Chapter Fifteen>Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen>Chapter Eighteen>Chapter Nineteen>Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty One

And here is Chapter Twenty Three.


Written in five minutes from the writing prompt, "yard sale" as part of the #freewrite exercise. Image is also by me. You can view the prompt here and check out the other entries; feel free to mosey about and see if anything catches your eye, I'll be right over here in my lawn chair with the neighbourhood cat. Thanks to @mariannewest for creating and running this virtual grab bag of writing deals! Deals! DEALS!.

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