'Captain!' The helmsman said. 'I think we should land on the island and make ourselves known. Maybe that poor woman is a castaway and needs us to save her.'
'I have something to help save her,' another man said and demonstrated what he meant.
Melcorka smiled and looked away, shaking her head.
'Enough of that!' Bradan tapped the man ungently with his staff. 'There is a woman on board, remember.'
'Maybe I should show her, then,' the oarsman said and stood up, adjusting his clothing.
'Only once,' Bradan tapped his staff on the deck. 'You would do that only once.'
'I would not advise you to go to that island,' Melcorka said quietly. 'Look around. There are no birds, there are no crops, there are no trees, and there is no house. Whatever that is standing there, it is not a beautiful woman
