then at the first available opportunity, this monster that has swallowed us will return us to the world inhabited by our own kind.”
“Unless they recruit us to serve on the crew,” Conseil said, “and keep us here—”
“Till the moment,” Ned Land answered, “when some frigate that’s faster or smarter than the Abraham Lincoln captures this den of buccaneers, then hangs all of us by the neck from the tip of a mainmast yardarm!”
then at the first available opportunity, this monster that has swallowed us will return us to the world inhabited by our own kind.”
“Unless they recruit us to serve on the crew,” Conseil said, “and keep us here—”
“Till the moment,” Ned Land answered, “when some frigate that’s faster or smarter than the Abraham Lincoln captures this den of buccaneers, then hangs all of us by the neck from the tip of a mainmast yardarm!”
