She Be Sea Worthy

Jay was all grown up, a man with a daughter, a girl named Trudy, was exceptionally bright; she had learned all things nautical through her father. Trudy would pretend to steer her card board ship by the stars.
Jay found his daughter once stuck in a small box exploring the seven seas as usual. Jay pulled Trudy apart from the box, snickering slightly.
"Captain, Sir?" Trudy asked in the cutest way, "Can you help me make this little woman sea worthy? She is but a box right now yet I know she will pull through for you Cap'n."
"Why yee young lass, by noon tomorrow we be a float on yer pappies ship?" Jay said. "Oh I can't wait father... I mean Cap'n?"

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Jay took the small boat out from the dock while Trudy sat on the rickety Schooner.
Jay noted that the waters were empty; it seemed that there were no Boats, no life. It was dark. Jay saw that there were no Stars in the sky. A full moon caused shadows of Jay along with Trudy to dance on the waters. Then the boat drifted along down a smooth moving shoreline, past the foot of land.

Trudy seemed dizzy yet still excited as she beheld a wide expanse. Trudy thought of ancient Gods like Neptune. The name Poseidon came to Trudy's mind, a soul whose waters seemed like such a powerful hue of blue. Trudy never forgot all the teachings her father had taught. All of Trudy's life she had waited for the day when she would go sailing. She learned not only to steer by the stars, a compass or how to check sea depth. Trudy learned much more. She learned the myths, how it was bad luck to have a woman onboard.

"I know that you know the rule well." Jay said, referring to the rule of not having a lady onboard a ship, "Rules need be broken, Aye first mate Trudy!" Jay laughed a hardy seaman's laugh. The laugh echoed.

Jay, who now gripped tightly at the wheel, had absurdity that they would make it to their location,
To a ship much bigger than the one they were on.
Now, the corners of Jay's beard swooshed in the breeze, a beard that belonged to a better sea captain than most. Trudy felt her bare feet against the course wood, loving it. Trudy had waited long for this moment, a moment to be at sea. A moment is a lifetime starting at two years of age and now she was seven.
Her reproach to sea was less zealous than her father's. Trudy was a devotee, a pillar of gifted Youth by which no other child normally would be, as a water maiden, Trudy Was not forbidden to do most things other children could not. Trudy had lived to see another day without a spanking or even so much as a little scolding. The little girl was spoiled yet well behaved.
At first glance of Trudy, most students referred to her as Daddy's little upstart, a brat. She knew that she was none of those things. Although she wanted to cut the arm off or pluck the eyes out of each student that had wronged her, she knew it would be her hide, yet not from her dad but maybe from some muteness teacher. So she behaved and was an exceptional student in school. Her father would have been proud of such an outburst… She could be pretty gruesome if she wanted to be.

"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest!" Jay sang loudly as rain began to spit in their direction. "Yo ho, and a bottle of rum!" Trudy giggled as she sang with her father. The waters became a dusky visage of black ink.
The steel rivets loosened slightly from the buckling of the boat. The tiny ship tossed the crew like a salad. Scarcely had Jay feared the briny yet neither did Trudy. At the moment she was so very, very much alive. In the distant mist of water vapor, appeared a mighty large ship, with a flag of an open mouth as well as glaring eyes of a skull with cross bones. There before them floated a huge beast.
"Ah, me young lass! It's the Black Waters! Me ship!"
They came closer, Trudy noticed the seven assembled men on the deck of the Black Waters, having seen them before as neighbors, friends and family, she was steady, Not a pinch of fear with in her soul. The seven cast down there eyes, and gazed past the depths of the ocean, peering into their captain's one good eye with what seemed like respect... No, Fear.
The men looked at the girl and it seemed that they feared her more...
‘A female aboard the ship, why would the capt’n do such a thing?’ They thought but of course would never tell the captain. His daughter was everything and in comparison his crew was nothing.
Jay tied the boat to the side of the ship, Placed Trudy upon his shoulders than climbed to the deck.

"Welcome aboard, Lass. Ye be now the first mate onboard a Pirate ship!" Her father spoke. She was born a Pirate. Trudy was destined for Piracy and she be sea worthy…