The Masque of the Red Death [Open and ACCEPTING!!]

[Rin128563]

Scarlet watched as everyone fell asleep. She sat at the end and looked outside the tent and looked around, she mostly looked down at the water.  

[Nick_austin90]

"Princess, do you have a binocular?" Nicholas asked.  

[Rin128563]

"Yes, hold on." Scarlet got up and went over to the sleeping children. It was around one of there necks and she managed to slip it off and walked back over to Nicholas. "Here," she handed him the binoculars and sat down next to him.  

[Nick_austin90]

"Thank you," he said as he took the glasses and he trained them to the east. His eyes grew wide. It was land and he can see people!.

"Princess, we must have our oars out tonight. There is land at the east though I'm not sure which but we can get a lead there," Nicholas said excitedly as he turned to face the princess.  

[Rin128563]

Scarlet had a wide smile on her face and nodded, "Yes of course." She was glad that they had finally reached some sort of land. Now they didn't have to be stranded on these boats for long.  

[Nick_austin90]

"Oh, I see boats coming to us. It seems as if they are waving something to us," Nicholas said as he peered hard through the glass.  

[Rin128563]

Scarlet smiled and put her hands together. 'God please don't give us anymore problems,' she prayed hoping that nothing bad would happen.  

[Nick_austin90]

"They're calling to us," Nicholas said as they got nearer. As soon as they got close enough, he could hear them speaking English.

"Ahoy there mates. Ya seem lost. Care to join us in at the mainlands?" a man in his 40s asked. He was sitting on the head boat and he smiled at them.

"That would be great, sir. Pray tell, where are we?" Nicholas asked loudly.

"Why lad, I'm not good at readin' maps so you have to ask my daughter when we get to land. We just harbored 2 weeks ago and the life there is brilliant. Come now. We'll tow yer boats along." The man passed a few boats and Nicholas began tying. He was reluctant to trust the old man but tiredness gave way. He just tied them boats all tightly.  

[Rin128563]

Everyone had awaken and saw that we were heading toward land. They all became hopfull agian and wore smiles on there faces. They called Scarlet over wanting to know exactly what was going on. She went over to them and explained what little she knew.  

[Nick_austin90]

"It seems as if the land is not inhabited for a while. Am I correct, Jack," Nicholas asked the old man. They had introduced each other and Old Man Jack had taken liking into him and was trying to get him to marry his only daughter. Who wouldn't. He was gorgeous, as Scarlet had states oh so long ago in her garden and he had taken his mask off. It did felt awkward to have the wind against his face but everything else felt great.

"Told ya we came here 2 weeks ago. There's only about 70 of us and our ship is there too. We sail to the city to get food though," jack said. Nicholas nodded in acknowledgement.  

[Rin128563]

Scarlet Stood by the edge of the boat looking down at the water. She sighed every so often feeling sadder and sadder as the time past.  

[Nick_austin90]

"Is something bothering you princess?" Nicholas asked out of concern.  

[Rin128563]

Scarlet sat there silent for a bit then fianlly spoke, "It's just that i wish none of this ever happened in the first place." She sighed as she thought about England and all the lives that were lost and left behind.  

[Nick_austin90]

Nicholas sighed too.

"It is not in our power. Fate had it in store already and we cannot stop it. Take it as this way, every cloud has a silver lining." Nicholas said slowly. He was sad too. It had made him remember the innocent lives that he had to kill on the ship.

"There will be something good coming out of this..though I know not when or how," he smiled softly.  

[Rin128563]

"I know....I know..." was all she said and then fell silent again.