Tattoo
Catt woke from a dream. She had been on the deck of a ship, pitching in the waves, but instead of the pirates she remembered from her childhood, the deck had been full of people from Great Bakak. The captain had been shouting that a storm was coming, and Catt had been seized by the terror of knowing what was coming, while the others had been dancing and celebrating the promise of rain. "A storm! A storm!" the captain had bellowed menacingly. "A storm! A storm!" Lemmy had sung joyously.<...
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