Chapter 16, Dusty:Against his better judgment concerning his self-preservation, Dusty took command of the doomed ship. A quick inspection proved all original charts, ship’s logs, even the name had been removed. There was no conceivable way to trace the provenance of this small trader. If discovered, there would be no clue where this ship of death originated from.
The strange little man had done a splendid job of scrubbing any evidence of where the sloop came from. Out of a flair for the dramatic, Dusty took to thinking of the craft as Leviathan. Death from the sea awaited its landing.
Rather than risk the health of his first mate and quartermaster with transferring this death ship, he took on the role himself, with only Haut and three other sailors for help.
Dusty handpicked the crew; i
