Charles led Dawn away from the deck, the lash trailing behind them, slithering across the deck towards his door. In the opposite direction, Robbins was babbling drunken excuses as his arms were pulled by many angry hands of those crewmen who had not gotten a turn through the offered delights of the evening. Robbins screamed as the door to that led below decks was pulled open and he was propelled roughly through it. The stairs creaked under his weight as he bounced from one to another rolling down the rough-hewn wood planks like a drunken sea bag dropped unceremoniously down the dark stairway. Robbins opened a swelling eye from the deck as he tried to lift himself painfully from the floor at the bottom of the stairs. Panic flashed through his blurred vision, knowing he had to run, he had to escape...
Before he could raise himself to unsteady knees, his head was jerked up hard as two hands surrounded his neck from behind. “Mass’r Robbins,” Phillip hissed into his ear, “I have heard many times that to fail your brother in arms is to carry their burdens.” Robbins tried to shake his head, “Ph-Ph-Phil., uh...” Robins was cut off in his useless plea for mercy as Phillip increased his squeeze on the old man’s throat, silencing him and dragging him roughly down the dim hall. A host of rage filled and lust laden men following in their flailing wake.
Phillip paused only to kick the door to the stores room open. He roughly brought the man who had denied them their prize of captain pussy over a barrel toppling it. Instantly Robbins was gasping for breath the red marks of Phillips hateful fingers evident on his neck. He rolled the barrel clumsily in a pathetic attempt to escape. Before he could hardly catch his breath let alone regain his balance, his wrists and ankles were all seized and pulled tight. Robbins mind went blank as he felt the thick heavy rigging ropes lashing around his limbs and stretching him over the barrel. The sound of his soiled trousers ripping under Phillip’s curved knife. “NOO!!!” Robbins managed to whine loudly as tears began to fall from his blazing eyes. “Shut the ol’ fool up!” Phillip replied.