Revolution

Chapter 4

Dream held onto the rail as he felt the boat rock up and down, the movement making him feel nauseous. "Feeling seasick, huh?" He heard king Marlof ask from behind, clearly noticing the new behaviour of Dream.

"Yeah, I do feel a bit sick." Dream told him, gripping the rail with his left hand and holding his stomach with the right. The king chuckled for a moment before stopping again.

"Well, it is your first time on the ocean. But don't worry, even sailors have been seasick at least once before. You'll get used to it eventually." Marlof told Dream, which at least made him feel a bit less nervous. He was worried he'd be sick this entire ship ride.

"I never asked you, what's your first name? If you're going to be my father-in-law soon I feel I should at least know your name." Dream said, his eyes still locked on the ocean, the deep blue water that shined bright in the sunlight seemed mesmerizing to him. Marlof walked over and stood next to Dream, he couldn't help but notice for awhile now short he was.

"My name is Sebastian, Sebastian Marlof." The king told him, he turned to see what Dream's reaction was. Dream nodded before smiling to the ruler.

"Well, I think Sebastian is a pleasant name!" The young prince said, smiling to the man whom he was about to live with for awhile. The two chatted for awhile, but Dream made sure to not say anything that might make Sebastian suspicious. The last thing he needed was for the king to find out he was going to run away, who knows what he could do. Maybe he'd burn him alive in front of the whole kingdom so they could mock and curse him, or maybe he'd have him crushed to death by an elephant, slowly, making sure he felt all of that horrible pain as the people laughed. Those were at least the type of punishments he had seen done to people his entire life. He would watch innocents die just for his fathers pleasure.

"Anyway, this was a wonderful chat. But I will be heading down to the dining room for supper, would you care to join?" King Sebastian Marlof asked as the sun went down slowly, having beautiful colors display across the sky and reflect on the water. It was truly one of the most beautiful things he'd ever seen.

"You can go, I'm sorry but the sickness has made me lose my appetite." Dream said as he watched the colors slowly but surely fade as darkness began to creep closer, ready to engulf the world until the sun rose again. The king smiled and gave Dream a quick alright before leaving. Dream continued to watch until darkness had taken over the once bright sky, but the stars and moon would fight to make the world at least a little brighter. Dream then left and headed back to his room for the night.

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Dream stared at his map, thinking. How is he supposed to get a ship to sail back to his island? The ways he's come up with is either stealing one at night, which he didn't want to do at all, convince a sailor to either let them borrow his ship or to take them there, or to get someone with a position of power to get them one. He decided the first one would be a very last resort if nothing else worked, he didn't want to steal! He just hoped at this point he wouldn't have to.

Finally, he put the map back down though and decided to rest for a little while. It was late and he didn't have much else to do here on the water. He laid back onto his bed, rethinking everything and how his life was about to get a whole lot different from what it used to be. His mind stirred until it grew tired and he fell asleep.