Snippet #1325329

Calder wasn’t sure he could be surprised anymore, after all he had just been stolen away from the waters he know by a storm and dumped on a shore that shouldn’t exist but today was full of strange events. When he and his sailors reached the pair remaining passengers, they fully expected to find some gibbering savages dressed in a loincloth and bits of bone. Well that was what they found but they weren’t expecting to find a single woman in such a getup and brandishing a spear. Momentarily stunned, the Ulsttormen recovered and fanned out, forming a half circle around the savage, sharp steel held before them. However, before they could engage her, James had his move.

“By god” swore Captain Mor, lowering his cutlass and thrusting his pistol back into his belt, “A woman.”

His words were met with the sound of gunfire, as a number of panicking sailors had managed to reload their muskets and take a second shot at the trees. A few more rang out, as the slower men or the younger who had bumbled the loading, finally got their firelocks ready. The trees and bushes still rustled, as small animals and birds scurried for safety. This provoked more cries about there being an army all around them and men shouting at each other to load faster.

“You six” said Calder, pointing to half of the sailors around him, “Get ‘em under control and have ‘em set fires along the beach. I don’t think there be more of these wild women about but I don’t fancy me throat gettin cut in the night if there are.”

As the men dashed off, the Ulsttorman looked down at the native and tapped the blade of his sword against his leg. What where they to do with her? If it had been a man they had caught, he's have suggested simply cutting the fellow's throat and dumping the body in the waves but that was a little too callus for a woman. he didn't think they should keep her, not only was she dangerous but his lads were scared and alone on this place. They might just decide that this wild woman could be used to satisfy some of their own baser urges. He didn't want any of his sailors getting used to the thought of rape, not with two young woman in the company.