The Wooden World, Part 8.

[thebrettguy]

Their route had taken them along the underside of Cuba, and around its west coast before turning northeast toward Nassau.

The weather was muggy and stifling, punctuated by terrible rain storms. The experience on ship was utterly different when one was soaked to the skin with salt water, weary from the oppressively dense air, and bitten everywhere

Comments

[dabria]

No! Not Tom! That's not fair...*pouts*

Well written though! ^^

[thebrettguy]

I actually didn't write Tall Tom with the idea that he'd die. He was there to help explain some changes in the Navy during this period, to represent the life of the career Jacktars, and sort of be their voice.

But when I wrote this scene, it struck me that he would die, and at least from my perspective I'd feel that sense of loss and of a life cut short, even though he was an older man.

Had no idea if it'd work for the reader but apparently it has. Death is tragedy.