"Catch something, catch something!!" And he started to pick up the line, the other two boys looked at him expectantly.

Lucas pulled the hook hard, as if a whale was biting on the other side, the force was such that Lucas lost his balance and fell on his ass against the deck when he managed to get the hook out of the water.

"Ha ha ha" Taras river like a wretch

"..."

Ricardo was silent, watching the baited hook wobbling in the air.

"Next time, take it out little by little, otherwise they will always escape" Ricardo reminded him that he had caught something

"Yes... Yes" Lucas agreed sitting on the ground, from that position he noticed that the rope that held the fishing net was somewhat more tense than normal.

"Looks like we managed to catch something!" Lucas said, pointing to the rope.

"A long time ago..." Taras said with enough experience on the subject "but wait a bit, the rope still not tense enough to be worth the effort"

The boys waited patiently, paying attention to the most experienced sailor, who this morning had had to tutor the other two young boys.

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Luckily, the weather was nice and the waves of the sea helped to keep the boys patient.

"Do you have any news of the sick boys?" Lucas asked, bored with the wait and hoping that the subject would not return to the previous one.

"I think that's the fourth time you've asked this week, Lucas" Tara said lazily looking at the rope that held the net.

"Do you want to keep looking at the rope in silence?" Lucas asked wryly, but Taras didn't reply.

"Only that they are blaming us unfairly, probably because we are cabin boys" Ricardo commented with disgust on the subject.

"Although we hardly ever clean the kitchen, I always check that the food is healthy"

"If they get sick, it's because of something else, not because of spoiled food"

Taras got up from his chair, spitting into the ocean, cursing: "I think the same thing, that bastard Ron is using us as a shield to not create fear"

"The sick have already spent a whole week in the wine cellar, being cared for only by Ron and Dima. They won't let us go see them and none of the guys in the cabin have any news, for me, they are long dead, I hope the captain don't blame us and throw us overboard"

"The truth is, I'm already tired of the rest of the sailors seeing us as guilty of murder..." Ricardo said, quite sad about the subject.

"I still have faith that they will recover" Lucas said, trying to encourage the other two boys.

Although it was not a serious incident, everyone noticed that a week ago sick people began to appear on the ship and whenever Ron and Dima appeared they isolated them in the wine cellar to be able to treat them better.

The worst thing is that every time a sailor asked the higher ranks something, they only answered that they ate spoiled food, so everyone had started to despise the food of the cabin boys a few days ago.

The situation became so serious that the sailors decided to throw part of the food caught a week ago overboard and force them to start fishing for new food.