Doctor Who - Telos - 04 by Ghost Ship
Author:Ghost Ship [Ship, Ghost]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER FIVE
ATLANTIC OCEAN DRIFT
Alone, alone, al alone, alone on a wide, wide sea!
And never a soul took pity on me, my soul in agony.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT
MARINER
FRUSTRATED, I WAS LEFT TO WANDER THE SHIP AGAIN, WONDERING
if, like Coleridge’s Mariner, I was to remain trapped within a nightmare of
my own imaginings for all eternity. Alone and vulnerable on this ship
upon a wide and pitiless painted ocean.
I found myself, once again, at the ship’s bow, watching the waves. An
unrelenting darkness was encroaching on the horizon, threatening to
smother the twilight. Another night of troubles and storms was heading
our way.
The sky was bleeding, streaks of scarlet scoring the distant horizon
beneath banks of swirling cloud. Under this angry, vicious sky came the
ocean, the setting sun’s reflection spray-painting the lapping waters gold.
I was in a highly alert, nervous state that I had experienced on only a few
occasions before. There was a slight trembling of the fingers, a quickening
of the pulse. Words seem inadequate when describing it now. Perhaps the
total response would find its best expression in the chords and harmonies
of dramatic music. In a condition such as this, all the senses tend to
become heightened. Behind my back I heard the faint noise of pursuit. It
was simultaneously the feather-light tread of the panther, the hiss of the
blade, the soft and deadly flap of the wings of an angel of death.
I somehow managed not to turn around. To do so would, in ways that
border on the ridiculous, have cheapened the clinical perfection of the
moment. Made it less beautiful in its completeness.
‘Here’s a penny for your thoughts,’ said a bright female voice from
behind me.
So transfixed had I been on the surging, frothing and foaming ocean that
I had momentarily forgotten that there were, in fact, other people around
me. Real people. Living people.
‘Thank you, but I’m afraid I don’t have any change to give you.’
I heard soft laughter and finally turned – a little light-headedly, so long
had I been staring at the azure ripples and spit-white spray. I squinted, my
eyes momentarily blinded by the brilliant dying sunlight. Haloed within
its luminescence, Miss Lamb smiled back at me and my discomfort. ‘You
seemed lost in thought, Doctor.’
‘Lost?’I asked, and then coughed, my throat dry and tasting of salt. I was
a little surprised at such a perceptive observation. I gave her a half-hearted
smile of confirmation. ‘I was looking at the sea.’
‘Magnificent, isn’t it?’ she asked. ‘Untamed. A slave to no-one.’
Another interesting observation.
‘Actually, I was thinking about Samuel Coleridge,’ I continued.
Miss Lamb joined me at the gnarled whitewashed iron railings
overlooking the ship’s deep bow, and below that, the angry waves. ‘Water,
water everywhere yet not a drop to drink?’ she misquoted with a soft and
gentle hint of laughter that was carried away on the wind. Beneath us, the
sea seemed to join in with the merriment, its waves swishing and leaping
as the ship cut straight through them.
Psssht, fssschwt, psssht, fssschwt.
Psssht, fssschwt, psssht, fssschwt.
Psssht, fssschwt, psssht, fssschwt.
I cleared my salt-lined throat. ‘“Like one that on a lonesome road doth
walk in fear and dread, and having once turned round walks on, and no
more turned his head,”’ I replied.
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