7
“All hands on deck!”
The loud voice jerked me awake. I stretched out my hand to sit up, but my palm slipped on the side of the captain’s bed and half my body followed suit. I dragged the covers down onto the floor with me so that in a second I was tangled on the floorboards. Being so close to the unbending beams of the ship, I could feel the harsh rocking as swells shoved the ship from side-to-side.
The door to the cabin flung open. I looked up and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw it was Darda. “I thought you were a pirate,” I told her as I tried to unravel myself from the sheets.
Darda hurried over and knelt beside me. “Now is not the time for playing in sheets, Miriam. The captain has called everyone to deck, and that includes you.”
“Have we hit an iceberg?” I quipped a
