Snippet #2422849

Casandra took the offered violin and nodded at his request. Two dogs had been allowed onto the lifeboats, she doubted anyone would tell her to drop a simple music case. He handed her a case of sheet music too, which she passed onto Carrie because she wanted at least one hand free. The group walked over to the lifeboats, but she knew it would be useless for the two males- the people boarding wouldn't allow a male on unless all females and children ready to board where on, and that was if you got the one that took the order of 'women and children' to mean first. You might get the one that thought the order was women and children only. Best to be safe and stay on the starboard side, where the man loading lifeboats would at least allow males.

Oliver spoke up then, mostly just wishing he had a drink and muttering nonsense about braving the waves. Of course, that was a silly notion- people who jumped into the water either died immediately of heart attack because of the rapid change in temperature or slowly and painfully died of hypothermia.

"Your chances of pulling that off are low. 'On the night of the sinking of the RMS titanic, the water was 28 °F, or -2 °C. Only a few survived braving the waves, among them Charles Lightoller'," She quoted, remembering reading a book on the disaster, "The people that survived... most of them got to one of the overturned lifeboats. Even then.... only the lucky survived," she said quietly, still unsure if this was really happening to her. She should have been eating dinner in the less-than-stocked kitchen and studying. She wasn't really worried for her life- most of women survived and they were right next to the lifeboats. Still, Oliver and Isaac would be denied entry to a lifeboat. They had to think, and fast. The men who would be loading the ship would more than likely be very focused on getting the women on board, no matter the cost.

"Two dogs got on board because the women wouldn't load the lifeboat without them... a whole person might be different, but it would be worth a try. Now, it might be hard for all of us to masquerade as a group of siblings, and I'd hardly say they'd ever allow a male on the boat just because some flighty girl said they were friends, but it will have to work," she muttered under her breath, looking over the ship slowly.