I turned around to see if there was anyone else on the raft. Lyle and Crystal were there, but they weren’t looking good. Lyle’s wound was deep, and I could even see the bones jutting out from his skin.
I stared up into the sky silently, praying for the sun to set sooner, or else Christopher’s wound would get infected because of the heat.
because dusk eventually fell. I tried to see if there was anything around us, but all I could see was the
I was starting to get parched. Christopher’s lips were cracking from the lack of water too, so I tried to get some water from the sea. No good. It’s salty. This’ll kill us. Christopher can’t drink this. The gravity
right before us. The sight of the island ignited the flames of hope within us, and we quickly rowed ourselves
helped Christopher up to the sandy land of the island. There was somebody talking in the distance, and we thought it was a boat coming into the pier. Thinking it was salvation, we quickly went
around a big fish they caught. But when they realized our group was wounded and weak, they let their guard down. “Get
cloth down from his shirt to cover up his wound before bandaging it.
the beach, I could feel gusts of cold win buffeting against me. Oh, so
I’m not letting you die, not after we escaped the ship.” I
smiled. “I’m not
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