Dimitri watched as the day’s final moments drained away, much like the amber colored liquid in the bottle he now held to his lips. It seemed somehow fitting that the daylight should disappear with the rum. After all, moonlight was often much kinder to a broken spirit than the warming rays of day, and there was little reason to fear the chill of nightfall when wrapped tightly in the arms of libation. A gentle breeze drifted in off the ocean, flooding over him like a relic of the past, and for a moment, he closed his eyes to dwell in it. Dimitri could recall the character of the ocean; its volatile temper, and it voice like a chorus of endless waves. He could recall the gentle motion of his vessel, and how it had lulled him to sleep those many nights at sea. Above all, however, he could remember her; the look of unobscured terror in her eyes; and the shrillness of her pleas. He could remember the way her hand felt as it slipped from his grasp, and the moment she crashed into the chur
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