Pirates Of The Caribbean /// Keys Of Hell

Chapter LXXIII

Upon leaving the shack, Johari, Jack and Gibbs went to get more barrels of rum for their trip, and then returned to the Black Pearl to wait for the arrival of the other pirates.

When the pirates arrived, Jack, while he had the monkey on his shoulder, was finally able to give the orders to set sail and start their trip to Port Royal.

Jack: Master Gibbs! To the rudder while I give the orders!
Gibbs: Aye aye captain! (Walks to the rudder)
Jack: Marty, ropes! Bollard and Cremble, Canyons and cellar! Pike and Scrum, hoist the sails!
Scrum: Aye aye Captain! (Goes to his assigned position, along with the other pirates)
Jack: (To the monkey) Jack, go and help Marty with the ropes. (•••) Johari! Crow's nest! (Throws a spyglass to the African woman)
Jack the monkey: (Emits a typical monkey sound and goes next to Marty)
Johari: (When catching the spyglass) Me, to the crow's nest?
Jack: Aye, you.
Johari: But I never go up there.
Jack: Today I decided to give you the position of lookout.
Johari: Are you sure 'bout that, Jack?
Jack: More than ever.
Johari: (Looks in detail at the spyglass that Jack threw at her)
Jack: Johari, If you're going to be in my Black Pearl under my command, you're going to have to do everything I tell you. Savvy?
Johari: Aye... You're right... Captain.

Johari, although without much desire, did not think twice to transform into an owl, with the power of the Onyx Owl, and fly up to the crow's nest to work as a lookout as Jack had ordered her.

After flying to the crow's nest, Johari returned to her human form and began to see through the spyglass. She, although trying to see where the ship was heading, on the way to Port Royal, could not avoid from time to time to turn around on the completely opposite side and see into the open sea.

While Johari was working as a lookout, and from time to time turned to look out to sea trying not to let any pirate on deck notice her, she had a memory of a date that she knew she would never forget.

Johari wanted to rest her eyes, so she kept the spyglass in her leather bag, while she took a sip of the water from her canteen. Then, while looking at the opposite side to which they were heading, she turned the necklace she was always wearing, and grabbed a wooden pendant that she always wore hidden under her hair. This made her remember what she longed for the most and gave her a great feeling of nostalgia.

When she remembered the family pendant, she understood the reason why, involuntarily, she turned to look at the opposite side of America. What the African descendant wanted most was to see her relatives again, whom she had not seen since the day before she was taken to sugar plantations, along with her cousin Gombo Jocard, and other of her African relatives.

That memory was little by little making her increase her sadness and nostalgia. The memory made her want to hide; to disappear; to go back in time, to the years she enjoyed the hugs of her parents when she was just a child. Or at least, at times that on the Pantano Island, she received the comfort of her friend Tia Dalma.

Her desire to be alone, away from pirates, increased. She wanted to sit down and start crying hiding her face between her knees, but since the crow's nest was such a small space, she didn't come up with a better idea than to transform into an owl, in order to have a smaller size, and hide between the thin walls of the platform.

(•••)

On the ship, all the pirates fulfilled the task assigned to them by Captain Jack Sparrow, but at one point, Pike, who had already seen the lookout a few minutes ago looking in the opposite direction to which they were going, looked back at the crow's nest and saw that there was no one there.