CHAPTER 7 : HORSEBACK

We spent a few months, nearly half a year to be exact, sailing around the South, sparring and practicing our piracy.

Then we decided that were going to go ransack some towns in the Caribbean and ended up ransacking towns in South America instead.

We set out for just that, Heikelos and I manning the ship whilst the orphans hit the towns, robbing everyone and everything they could get their hands on.

We did this to 6 towns in the Caribbean, 4 being in the Bahamas and three 3 more in South America, Brazil, and 5 more in Chile.

Our ship was fully stocked in riches and cutlery no one felt any remorse, and everyone was ice cold. Even viewing the lady crying on the beach in Chili for her table cloth made us feel no different.

We decided to go to Mali next from Chile but ended up going up North, passing Mexico instead.

We stopped on the East coast of America It already had Colonials dressed in blue and white at the time roaming the open country land.

The orphans decided that they had enough for good lives and all decided to leave except for 8 that wanted to go back to Europe and South Africa.

We said our goodbyes and unloaded their cargo. We left them with a row boat as well.

Then we sailed to Europe, I was 25 and Heikelos perhaps 36 years old.

We dropped of two more in Europe via Spain and Heikelos and I Butezda with the 6 more sailed to Thaose with most of the ship manned with ropes.

Upon our arrival, we decided to strand Maroontov in the Bay in Thaose as she needed some desperate repairs. I think we hit some rocks next to Gabon that scraped her so that she'd maybe sail twice more and sink for sure.

I took all my cargo and moved it to the mountains quite a depth inland and Heikelos followed with his stash to a Western Mountain.

The others separated with what they had as well. All we left on Maroontov were her sails.

We agreed to have a meeting a few months later and then separated for good.

I then set myself up in a mountain cave, very equipped and fancy. Camouflaged and difficult to attain as well. No one knew where I settled myself.

After living like this and taking showers in the rain, eating of the land and catching 6 snakes during a 6month time frame. My heart felt this yearning for the girl, and the feeling was mutual. Best of all, she felt nearby.

I decided to "lock" my cave up and ready myself for a trip on land.

I left, dressed in black pants and black Calvary boots with a black belt and green shirt with my red coat jacket. My hair was long and dark brown, I decided to tie it with a purple ribbon in my neck and headed out.

I walked for an entire day and found myself distancing near the coast. A woman showed up and started a knife fight with me for some lemons when I didn't even have lemons. I left her on the ground, still alive, and she scared at me. And ran into this valley.

Upon washing my face in a river I saw the girl on the opposite side. She was wearing a green dress. Her hair was blonde just as how I had imagined her to look like. She was walking with a tall ginger haired woman and a short stubby brunette woman.

I followed them to a house and watched her silhouette in the window until 3 am. Then I left.

I wanted her. Like how I wanted to be wedded.

I wanted to have pleasure with her in bed.

I wanted.

I decided that because I have feelings for her, I would take her virginity in the most romantic and adventurous way possible.

I walked onwards, seized myself a horse, and went back to a farm nearby, where I asked if the man could teach me horseback riding.

It took about a year, I practiced every day 13hours a day. Resting the horse on a Friday for a meal with the man and his wife. I paid them quite fairly for the training and hospitality.

Then one evening having had met up with our entire crew arriving on horseback, 3 of the six had bought farmhouses and cattle etc. 1 was building a castle. and the other one did as I did, stashed his cargo in a mountain in the North and was down South in search of a "cat". Heikelos said he was going to settle in Stellenbosch but was still checking the town out. I told them about my soul's yearning for a girl.

We all agreed that we were to obtain ourselves wives and left the meeting at that. It almost turned out as an argument between the castle orphan and a farm one as they said that they'd ruin their marriages with talk of piracy and that the farm one did not want that. He wanted his wife to think his a Master Farmer for all their life.

Anyway, we left back to our humble abodes. Everyone with a new gig at hand.

I couldn't stop thinking about the girl and imagined us together very happy and in love. Almost like as if she had become my obsession. I had to have her.

In the morning I set everything aside what is mine and what I'd give her. And I thought that we could live in the mountain where I was, but thought on the other hand maybe a lady as the girl probably was would perhaps want a proper house instead. And couldn't think of where I'd like to live with her in a house as the thought of a ship for a house flashed through my mind with the thought of it. Somewhat confusing.

I watched my horse grazing on some bushes and thought, I'm going to snatch the girl on horseback, like a knight in shining armor.

I laughed, thinking about the girl made me very happy. I was certain that my heart felt love for her.