Chapter 62: Niece Nuisance

Walking on the plank will be the method by which they shall kill me. Suddenly, the narrative of the pirate ship I had read before came to mind. Walking on the plank was also used as a kind of punishment for those who betrayed them, according to the book.

The rebels, cowards, fraudsters, and people who had committed major indiscretions in the previous century was punished by walking on the plank. The pirates compelled their victims to walk straight on the plank position on the edge of the ship with their eyes blinded and their wrists bound so that if they jumped, they would drown in the water.

I forced a firm swallow. It appears that my dream the day before I found out my parents died in the shipwreck was also a foreshadowing of my imminent demise. “Who would have believed I’d die from drowning again?” I thought to myself.

I sighed and laughed harshly at myself. “Perhaps my prior dream was my trial