The ship was going under full sail. Angelica did not notice how time flew.
"The earth!" suddenly shouted the sailor from the mast.
"Angelica, come here!" Julien called her from the command bridge.
Lica quickly ran upstairs.
"Look! Don't you remember it?" the captain smiled.
Angelica looked through the telescope ahead and in the outline she recognized the island, where they had landed with Huron and Julien.
"That is the island where we first landed!" she exclaimed.
"That's right!" the captain nodded. "This means that our swimming is coming to the end. Tomorrow at dawn, we will be there."
"I cannot believe it!" said the girl honestly. "All of these adventures knocked me sideways so much that I even don't know who I am and why am here!"
"Come on!" Julien chuckled. "You do know! The only bad thing about it is that I will be shorn of your company soon."
"Tell me, Julien," Angelica turned to the captain. "Do you have a girlfriend? And have you ever been in love?"
"In love?" Julien thought. "Yeah, I guess! But it was a long time ago. I liked one girl who was my neighbor. I think she liked me too. But then the story with my father happened and I had to take his place and continue our business. And I haven't seen this girl anymore... I guess she got married."
"Have you tried to look for her?"
"No!"
"Then you have to find her to dot your 'i's' and cross your 't's' in this story. What if she is still waiting and loves you?"
"Fat chance... So many years have passed."
"Julien, promise me that you'll find that girl!" said Lica passionately.
The captain looked at her and said slowly:
"Okay, I'll try! Although I am sure that you cannot step into the same river twice!"
"You should try," Angelica said softly.
"Why are we talking only about me!" suddenly Julien interrupted the conversation. "Tell me who is in your heart!"
"Oh, if I knew exactly..." Lica sighed. "You know, captain, I am very amorous, one day I like one man and the other day another!"
"So fall in love with me!" Julien smiled.
"Get away!" laughed the girl. "But to be honest I like you too. I treat you like my older brother..."
"What a pity!" the captain grinned. "But maybe one day you will change your mind!"
"I do not know, maybe..." Angelica replied evasively.
The seagulls appeared above the ship sails.
"We are very close to the island!" Julien said. "Would you like to walk there again?"
"Oh no, I am fold!" waved Lica. "One time was enough."
"Well, your wish is the low for me!" the captain said. "Excuse me; I need to do my job. There are so tricky reefs, that my sailors are likely to lose control without my help."
He kissed the girl's hand and went to the helm.
Angelica put her face against the fresh breeze, and again old memories had haunted her mind. She remembered 'Black Patrick' and its captain. A sad melody that Patrick played for her sounded in her head. She was badly sick in heart. Lica closed her eyes and remembered his beautiful green eyes. Suddenly the girl had very strong feeling to be with Patrick in his cabin again.
"What is happening with me?" Lica surprised. "Am I in love?"
She tried to think of other men, but only thoughts about Patrick came to her mind. Angelica ran into the cabin, found a piece of paper and ink, and immediately began to write...
To: the Captain of 'Black Patrick'
From: Angelica...
I want to jump
Into pool of your eyes...
I want your love -
So sexy and nice!
But only fate
Takes away from your lips;
And I'm afraid
It tips me the winks!
But I hope we'll meet
And destroy this pain...
And you know indeed
You have burned my brain!
Previously, she had never written poems, but now the feelings overwhelmed her and she wanted to express them somehow. Finished writing, Lica rolled paper, ran to the cook's cabin and asked him to give her an empty rum bottle. Then she stuffed paper inside the bottle, carefully closed and threw it far out to the sea.
"It is unlikely that this message will reach Patrick, but at least I tried to do something!" said Angelica to herself.
A little later Julien came to the girl.
"I would like to invite you today for a farewell dinner," he said. "Because only God knows if we meet again or not?"
"With pleasure!" Lica nodded. "I will tell Huron."
"He has already known."
In the evening high feeding was set in the captain's cabin. There were a variety of food and drinks.
"My cook tried his best!" Julien said.
"Hmm... He has hands of gold!" agreed to Huron. "Angelica, help yourself! In my cave, we cannot afford such luxury!"
"But where did you get the fruits?" surprised the girl. "We are in the open sea!"
"My cook bought them on the island of St. Mary and laid them down for this occasion!"
"He's just a magician!"
Angelica took the largest apple and sat down at the table.
"Tomorrow we will arrive in the harbor," the captain started the conversation. "Tell me, Huron, what you are going to do next?"
"Next?" said the sorcerer making a pause. "Next aim is to fight the evil!"
"It sounds too pathetic!"
"And, nevertheless, it's true!" Lica supported Huron.
"Really? Well, then tell me about it some more!" asked Julien, hiding a smile.
"The fact is," Angelica said, "that the evil spirits were released in the Kingdom of Night. Now they pose a threat to the kingdom and not only to it. They can materialize in the form of any evil creatures and monsters, but our main aim is not to kill these evil creatures because they will recreate again but drive the spirits back into the abyss. I have explained you our mission in two words, captain."
Julien was thinking...
"And what exactly are you, girl, doing in such a dangerous journey?" finally, he said.
"She plays the role of the first violin!" Huron grinned. "Or rather without her we couldn't do anything!"
"Angelica!" exclaimed the captain. "You can die!"
"I know," shrugged Lica, "but I have to. After all, the fate of so many people depends on me!"
"Am I too bold to understand the meaning of life?" muttered Julien. "Instead of having fun on the balls and doing housework, women began to take part in war!"
"One girl is different from another!" remarked the sorcerer. "Most of them like balls as just you said."
"I admire you even more!" said Julien enthusiastically, referring to Angelica. "But I'll say again, stay away from the battlefield!"
"Well, that's enough about business!" exclaimed Lica. "Let's dance, captain. I can see there is something looking like a gramophone."
"Oh, yes!" Julien smiled. "My father gave it to me when he came back from the long voyage."