Carnifex

BdL Harpy Eagle

The boatswain spared a glance overhead, silently praying that his camouflage job would do.

The hardest part had been assembling the frames in the midst of the storm, with the wind roaring and the waves sometimes washing over the deck. It had actually been fairly easy to construct the frames out of cheap lumber down in the cargo hold. Taking them apart and stowing them in an open space within the deck level of the superstructure hadn't been hard. But getting the frames out and built when no man could hear a word, or sometimes even see another for all the spray in the air? The boatswain rather hoped they'd not have to try this trick again and certainly not in a storm like the last one.

Safe enough bet, though, he thought. Like most tricks, it's unlikely to work more than once.

Still silently, the boatswain said a small prayer for the success of the Trinidad and the Agustin.