If Found, Hide It Again

Wednesday. Bad news. The captain’s log has gone up on the internet, and so, it seems, has this. My secret journal. My secret journal that is now, by any measure, not.

If you are reading this, please do not tell the captain. He thinks I am the most frightening man in his crew. He thinks the scar came from a sea serpent. He thinks I spend my nights on watch, and I do, mostly, in the sense that I watch prisoners and sometimes say useful things down a tube.

You will not find answers in these pages. I would never write down how to get out of the shanty. A first mate who writes down answers gets found out, and a crew that is handed answers has had no fun at all. What you will find is how the island works, why I do what I do, and the captain from the side he never sees.

His side is in his log, over on the ship’s website. Read them both and you will notice we were in the same places on the same days and came away with very different ideas.

Hide this again when you have finished. Under the rum barrel, third from the left.