Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by River and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.feeling  2.motion  3.unthinkable  4.blowing  5.shopping  6.road trip

Charlotte's colour of the month is Beauty Berry Purple which I haven't used in this chapter.

Here is my story: continuing from last week:

After calming down and changing clothes, Jim sat to have a cup of tea with his parents and the leader of the archaeological team, Russell Fielding. Russell asked if he could please have Jim’s shirt and pants, so the team could analyse the dust from the scene and hopefully find a few splinters of the wood from the ship too. Jim’s mother Maggie carefully put them in a plastic bag for him.

“Now tell us about what happened and what you saw and felt,” said Russell. “We were wandering about like we always do after a storm, looking to see if anything interesting got blown there and suddenly the ground was gone from under my feet and I panicked a bit, when I landed I was feeling really scared at first because I couldn’t see anything, when Dan and Greg called down I was so relieved, because being lost down there forever was unthinkable!”

“I bet you were very glad the hear them say they were getting help,” said Russell. “I’ll say!” said Jim. “I sat and watched the dust settle and then there was no motion at all for a long while but then maybe the wind changed direction or something because I felt a trickle of fresh air blowing in. It was really dry, so I knew I was above water level which was some comfort.”

“That is good,” said Russell,” but it does make us wonder how the ship got in there and how long ago. We will have to do some research and see how many centuries ago this area was under sea. It’s the only way a ship could get into a cave and probably by now divers won’t find an entrance. We may have to excavate.”

“Will we be allowed to watch?” asked Jim. “Probably not while we are removing large pieces of rocks,” said Russell, but maybe when we start bringing up pieces of the ship, though touching won’t be allowed.” “I’ll bring my camera,” said Jim.

Maggie asked if all the pieces would be taken to the local museum or the big one in the city. Turning to Jim, she said, “we could take a road trip to see the display and learn more about what type of ship it was and how it came to be there. And I could do some city shopping too.”