Mal Augurio

"Everything okay Ron?" Wiliam asked with some fear, as he grabbed the shoulder of his old friend, who seemed somewhat upset.

Old Ron's eyes and breathing returned to normal as the smile faded from his face and a look of utter terror appeared on his face.

Hands shaking and sweat pouring down his face, Ron patted his entire body desperately, as if he were searching for something he no longer remembered where he had put it.

"Everything okay Ron?" He asked Wiliam again before the awkward silence that was already beginning to scare him.

But only the waves of the sea and the creaking of the wood answered

After the deadly silence that seemed to have lasted an eternity finally Ron, with trembling hands, took out a small leather bag from his pocket, inside the bag was a set of ivory dice of irregular sizes.

Seeing the dice Ron had rolled, William's concern turned to anger.

"Do you even know what you've done? 500 shitty caps are worth the lives of all your comrades?"

"Captain, I really don't know what just happened... I really didn't mean to do it, I was just forced to do it" Ron replied.

William looked at his first mate, he knew that his friend's reaction was abnormal, but he preferred to ignore it than to assume that the corruption of the sea finally touched the planks of his ship.

On the part of him, Ricardo, who seemed not to know the taboos of the seas, smiled triumphantly at the judge's decision to spare his life.

"Ha ha ha..... Captain time, I knew it!!"

"This bastard was cheating!!!"

Seeing his euphoric reaction, William raised his hand and punched him, that left Ricardo on the ground and said upset.

"Novice shut your mouth, at sea you should never swear by Galleon in vain, no sailor worships the God of sea beasts, but that does not mean we can afford to offend him in the middle of the trip !!!"

"Now we can only pray to Tusha to protect us from his wrath and not send his furious beasts to kill us"

Seeing the level of disturbance of his captain, Ricardo understood that the sailors did not take the gods as casually as the people of Las Cuevas, where he had been born.

"So....sorry captain it's only my first trip"

William ignored the young sailor's apology, now he just looked around him warily, worried that the god's fury had already descended on his ship.

But there were only 3 scared people accompanied by old wine bottles and barrels in the cellar.

William, distrustful of his own senses that indicated that nothing unusual had happened, decided to listen to his instinct as an old sailor and prepare for the worst.

"Ron hurry upstairs and wake up all the boys I want them on deck right now, count them up and make sure not a single one is missing"

"Yes captain!!" Ron replied a bit slowly.

"Ricardo grabs Ron's blade, now he belongs to you as payment for the trap, and you come with me to check the rest of the ship"

"Yes captain!!" Ricardo replied with some happiness.

Ron handed the rusty blade to the boy, not caring much about the loss, as if more important things were going through his mind at the moment.

But just as the three of them were about to leave the hold, suddenly a scream was heard from the deck that echoed throughout the ship.

"Man overboard!!... Man overboard!!" The lookout shouted at the top of his lungs.