Saved by Him, Claimed by Him
With that familiar, ugly dread that comes when you know time is already running out and you don’t get to ask for more.
“Copy,” he says. “I’m moving.”
He pivots toward the boat.
The vessel is a thirty-foot fishing charter, white hull, blue stripe. Or at least it used to be white. Now it’s smeared with darkness, rainwater, oil, and sea slime. It tilts hard in the waves. The stern lifts and drops like it’s breathing.
Two figures are still on deck. One is sprawled near the railing, holding on with both arms as if letting go means dying. The other is crouched, head down, vomiting over the side.
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