Chapter 1

POV: Verdell Warden
- Wake up early with the sun just below the horizon.

- Grab trusty knife of bedside table, sling it over his shoulder.

- Bump into mother and grab lunch. Mother tells Dell to be home this afternoon so he can help get everything ready for his sister's wedding tomorrow. Lunch is A fresh apple, half a sausage and half a loaf of honeywheat bread.

- See people arriving in wagons, Aunts, Uncles, cousins and even a few grandparents. The Millers will be arriving tomorrow morning.

- Head to the boat that is tied up to a well worn tree truck along the shore.

- Father calls to Dell "Did you talk with your mother?", Dell holds up his lunch sack, "Good!, don't be out too late we will need you here to finish setting everything up, and your cousins are not going to do everything!"

- Cast off from shore and set the small sail. Head north along the coast for an hour.

- Tie down sail and attach the nets to the side of the boat.

- Catch up on some sleep waiting for the nets to fill.

- Eat part of lunch. Save the apple for later.

- Pull in nets they are mostly empty.

- A huge school of fish swims past heading north out past the last island.

- Set sail to chase the school.

- Break out past the islands, and cast the net in just before dropping the sail.

- Fish start to fill the net.

- There isn't time to get the sail down before all of a sudden a monster fish from the deep that was chasing the school get's caught in the net and starts pulling the boat even farther from shore.

- Dell fights the fish as much as he can, but the fish is too strong and is pulling the boat all over the place. The ropes and tackle in the boat are spilling everywhere.

- In the middle of the fight Dell notices storm clouds gathering just above the southern horizon. He is to far from shore to get caught in a storm.

- Seeing no other option Verdell unsheathes his knife and moves to cut the net free so he can sail home before the storm hits.

- Stepping up to cut the net Verdell slips on the uneaten apple and trips over some rigging.

- Hitting his head on one of the seats in the boat he is knocked unconscious and the knife falls from his hand.