The Aviation Diaries

CHAPTER 9

It has been a day and half since we landed on the Tobermory island. After the horrid crash many passengers were injured but alive.

The island was too far from the city and there wasn't any proper network to contact anyone from the crew.

People here have been very sweet and kind. There aren't any hospitals to treat patients but the trees provide all the medicines that one would need for internal sickness or external injuries.

"Harry? Water?" I lifted my head from side of the bed Miss. Grace was sleeping on to see Candice holding a glass of water.

People here were living in cottages which they had built brick by brick. The population was approximately of 30-50 people who were totally unaware or uninterested in the world outside.

"She'll be fine." She kept her hand on my shoulder giving a sympathetic smile. Ana had managed to take an unconscious Candice from the sinking plane to the land. She had no injuries. Due to reduced oxygen supply she had fainted in the aircraft.

"Chace said 48hours are critical for her." Chace was a doctor who helped his other passengers with their injuries. We had five doctors on board. They were injured from the plane crash too but those wounds were minor. Most of the passengers had minor injuries. Coming to Jenny, out of those 48 hours 36 hours had passed and there were still no signs of her regaining consciousness.

"She's a fighter. We're here because of her. Everyone outside is waiting for their saviour to open her eyes and give them a chance to express their gratitude. All their prayers are with her Harry." She tried to keep my hopes up. I don't know why but her unconscious state was now unbearable. I couldn't do much on the plane earlier. It was Jenny who saved each one of us risking her own life.

When the plane crashed, the windows shattered by the force of our impact and one of the fragments hit Jenny's head when she jerked forwards hitting her forehead on the yoke.

"You've been sitting here since the time you regained consciousness Harry. Rest for sometime." I had hit my sternum during the crash which made it ten times more difficult to breathe. I was unconscious the whole night but the doctors helped me recover with the limited instruments and medicines they had. It was difficult to sit straight but I didn't want to leave Jenny. Each time I tried to close my eyes I could only see the crash we experienced a day before and Jenny's lifeless body. Her words ran my mind like a never ending marathon.

"Harry? Harry?" I heard someone call me from outside the cottage.

The cottage looked as if it was straight out of a fairytale with a happy ending or a picture book for little kids. It looked like many things. It was rusty, old and dusty, but rather welcoming. The whole house was made of dark red bricks. A tiny stove, two small wooden chairs, a circular table, a not-so-large mattress and that was quite it.

"Here!" I got up from my chair next to Jenny's bed and walked outside. It still hurt a little in my chest but the pain was considerably less than before.

"I'm going to the shore and sit with others" Candice said as she walked towards the sea.

Hedges, vines, honeysuckles and so much more grew outside. There was a black gate with paint falling off was the door to the property. Vine grew up the archway and the arched wooden door with brown planks. The grass was green even in a cold weather like this. Two huge trees, both carrying coconuts gave it a typical look of an island.

The sea, perfectly calm, was like a peaceful lake, and its soft murmurs were scarcely audible. The waves seemed to sleep. A line of darker blue marked the curve of the horizon. All the passengers sat near the shore watching the scenic view.