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Passage 2 - The Haunting of Captain Flyn ...

Passage 2 - The Haunting of Captain Flynn

Sep 06, 2021

Captain Flynn, once of the steamship Seahawk, may be blind but what he sees on the soot-soaked streets by the market he sees well enough, he sees

never such crowds at any busy port or dock the S.S. Seahawk visited milling over the cobbles and staring at him like stranded fish, their sucker-wide mouths and vacant eyes deep as the Jonah dark he threw them to in the watery, ancient time before, and they nudge up to him...

FIRST DAMNED MAN : Remember me, Captain?

CAPTAIN FLYNN : How would I remember?

FIRST DAMNED MAN : You made me dance from the ship's crane.

SECOND DAMNED MAN : Do you see me, Captain? I worked the Seahawk's donkey engine. You killed me because we shared a girl. Remember her?

DAMNED WOMAN : Here I am, Flynn, dead and without a client to serve. See me?

THIRD DAMNED MAN : Hold me, Captain, for I'm the John you brought to a bad end. Very enjoyable.

FOURTH DAMNED MAN : I was one of your own, Flynn, served you right well, until the fight in the White Hart when I crowned you with my drink, you fed me to the sharks for that, in pieces.

FIRST DAMNED MAN : The cove there at your right is

FIFTH DAMNED MAN : Simon Barber. I was with you on the Seahawk when you took the Zebec.

CAPTAIN FLYNN : Good man, Simon.

SECOND DAMNED MAN : Tell my missus I loved her true.

THIRD DAMNED MAN : Tell my missus I left her for you.

FOURTH DAMNED MAN : Tell her lies.

FIFTH DAMNED MAN : Tell my girl you murdered me for nothing but a silk shawl.

FIRST DAMNED MAN : For my shipment.

SECOND DAMNED MAN : For time with a common whore.

THIRD DAMNED MAN : For complete silence.

FOURTH DAMNED MAN : Are we silent?

FIFTH DAMNED MAN : Who hears us in Hell?

FIRST DAMNED MAN : Who but Captain Flynn?

SECOND DAMNED MAN : Who sent us there to rot?

THIRD DAMNED MAN : Who but our Captain Flynn?

FOURTH DAMNED MAN : Who will hear our goodbyes?

FIFTH DAMNED MAN : Bad old Captain Flynn!

FIRST DAMNED MAN : Do you hear us, Flynn?

SECOND DAMNED MAN : And do you tell our girls?

THIRD DAMNED MAN : How we died? Why we left them?

FOURTH DAMNED MAN : Did you steal them from us, too?

FIFTH DAMNED MAN : Did you whisper to them?

DAMNED WOMAN : Or force them like you did me?

CAPTAIN FLYNN : Oh, leave me be!

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