Tʜᴇ Cᴏᴀsᴛᴀʟ Vᴇɴᴛᴜʀᴇ

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Estrella can feel herself slowly losing her sanity. In the short time in the container, it slowly became hotter and she could tell everyone was starting to panic. As far as they knew, there was no way out and there wasn't much room in the container to begin with. Her head fell back against the wall as JJ started complaining. She hears Kie sigh beside her.

"Nice work, John B. You know these things lock from the outside, right?" JJ complains

"Okay, I was just trying to get us on the boat, JJ." John B says, "I wasn't thinking that far ahead."

"We're stuck in here like rats." JJ says

"It's hot." Kie sighs as she shrugs her jacket off. Estrella leans to the side as she pulls it off of her arm.

"In this death cage!"

"Okay, JJ, you're not helping." Pope says

"You don't have a lot of room to talk right now, Pope." JJ says, "You said you had a plan, but what happened to thinking ahead?"

"I find your lack of self-knowledge disturbing."

JJ chuckles humorlessly as he stands up, "Last I checked, you literally shot an oil container with the gat. Remember that?"

Estrella groans as she kicks her foot out in between them, "Oh my God! Shut up. Shut up! Pull it together."

Estrella stares down at the two as they step away from each other. She looks over as Charlotte pulls her hair up into a ponytail. She puts her foot back down before taking her own jacket off.

"Okay." JJ sighs as he turns away

"Let's try to find a way out of here." Pope says

•••

The teens had been sitting for a while trying to come up with a plan for when they do find a way out. Estrella could feel her patience slowly slipping the longer she sat there.

"Hey, Pope, how do you kill a snake?" JJ asks

"You go for the head." Pope mumbles

"Exactly. But the head, in this instance, is the bridge." JJ says, "To take the bridge, we need maximum firepower. And I happen to know that there's an armory on this ship in case of pirate attacks."

"Pirate attacks." Kie repeats as she stands up

"If we take that-- I'm not just talking pistols."

"You lost me."

"I'm talking knives."

"Killing everybody here is not a plan." Kie says walking past him

"Ah, we lost her." JJ says, "I'm serious. If we get to the armory, I'm talking AKs, pistols, knives, double-barrels--"

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