On a life boat, John is pulling a lady out of the water.
"Blanket!"
William, who John rocked with earlier on the lower decks passed the blanket.
"Thanks...cough cough. Have u seen my husband?????" The lady asked as she cried.
"Your husband is not here Ma'am, he should be on the other lifeboats."
John is already numbed to such questions. Having been trained and already dealt to losses during police service and being a lawyer, he kept it simple and not so honest. Honesty brings us trouble.
"Another one ahead. Starboard." John sees another human floating and barely waving to him who got a lantern. Low visibility but he manages.
"Thank you lad. A blue skinned man pulled me from drowning." The guy shouted as soon as he got pulled.
"Sir, what are u saying?" William crew asked.
"A blue skinned man...i saw him too. I thought I was out of it. Did he have a funny ears?"
"Yes. But a blue skinned girl saved me." One answered.
"What are you talking about?" One asked.
"I don't know how to swim. I was about to drown. But a blue skinned man pulled me to a plank. He got funny looking ears." A guy said.
"Thats right. Funny looking ears. I told him thank you but he did not answer in English."
"Maybe he was Italian?" An Italian man excitedly made hand gestures.
"Or a French?" A french in his french. Duh.
"Go home Frenchie. No body asked you." The English man billowed.
"Yes! But mine was a girl. I am not French. Im Monagasque."
"Potato. Potatoh." The true frenchman from Island of Elba entered the chat.
"How dare you! You Napoleon dick sucking...."
"Oh yeah?!!! let's have a go you 2 hectare piece of land you call Monaco!"
"Hey! Fuckers! You have time to quarrel? Unbelievable." John can't believe these lot.
"Bunch of Normans and Goths." An English guy goaged.
"Fuck you!" The Normans and Goths entered the chat.
"FYI, you cock sucking English piss of shit. You are a fucking Norman and a Goth. Don't you know your King's surname? Its Saxe-Coburg-Gotha! Dumb ass!" An Irish man entered the chat.
"This is EU. Its cloud nine and rabbits before any German show its muscles. hahaha." In the middle of tragedy, you can find comedy. This is what John experiencing now.
"Maybe they were mermaids!"
"Yeah. Mermaids."
"So mermaids are true."
"Blue skinned mermaids."
"Men can be mermaids too?" Asked by someone who got samed by a man and not a woman.
"They are merman!"
"Merman. Make sense."
These kinds of conversation are happening in several lifeboats. Talks about a blue skinned man with funny ears.
John absorbing the information he is receiving now.
"What the heck are they talking about? I saw nothing." He said.
All eyes on the sinking Titanic that got snapped in two pieces.
"James Cameron was spot on." Hearing the awe and shock and cries, the amused John shut up.
Everyone cried.
"Hey! Blue skin and funny ears! Another James Cameron hit....Avatar Na'vi peeps??? No way." John have a chilling realization.
"No way. I trust the author that he won't be that messed up in the head and let me deal with aliens this early in the story. Yeah. Maybe later. Right, author?" John breaking 4th wall and its not funny. Yeah, a little bit.