the green voyager and a funny looking log pose- part 2

                                    

                                          



The next day, Shay awoke to a flock of seabirds circling her, so she peeled off the now considerably dry seaweed cocoon-blanket off her body. 


"Damn birds!", Shay groaned as she tried to spook them, chomping and baring her teeth, as well as flailing around her arms. 
They all flew away except one, which perched itself on the rim of the green voyager.
For a second she thought about eating the bird raw, without a bite to eat since yesterday it was tempting.... but it stared at her with its adorable beady eyes and she just couldn't. Shay then ripped a piece of seaweed off from the blanket and began chewing on it, remembering that seaweed was a good source of nutrients from one of the books she had read. 
"Hey little buddy, you want some?", the fishman girl said to the bird. 
The bird squawked really loudly in return so Shay ripped another piece off of the blanket and gave it to the bird, which surprisingly caught the seaweed in its mouth and ate it. 
This made her chuckle as she kept on rowing into the beyond. 
"If your here, land or another boat HAS to be near", Shay reasoned to herself, the bird squawked back.
After a couple minutes, the bird started moving funny, jerking its head back and forth. Shay watched intently as she kept on rowing, hoping the bird wouldn't die.
  
After a couple minutes of gagging, a thick lump in the seabird's neck was visible, and then..... it threw up a log pose............
As if the bird turned into gold itself Shay leapt up, which rocked the boat considerably, the two almost went overboard. After steadying herself she carefully crawled towards the bird and snatched the log pose, wiping the vomit off with her bare hand and tying it on her wrist. 
The wristband was considerably long, the leftover parts of the band hung considerably, so she tied it around her neck like a necklace instead, the log pose part reaching right under her heart.
 It was uniquely strange, the band part was a stretchy and squishy material, green and orange, and the log pose part was shaped like a star, with many different chambers and needles inside it, it was unlike any log pose she had ever seen before, with boundless curiosity she began to analyze this new trinket, as the seabird perched itself right on top Shay's head, a mop of curly red-brown hair. 
She decided to follow one of the needles, she was going to get to poshop island no matter what!
 "I.. pick.. you!", Shay said as she settled randomly on how she would try to follow the log pose. 
With all sense of time lost, Shay truly had no idea if she would ever reach poshop island. 
As they kept rowing, Shay thought about who the previous owner of the log pose must have been, and how was it not broken?? 
The seabird seemed to listen intently, puffed up like a feathery little blob as Shay had a guessing game with herself about all of the different possibilities of the functions of the strange log pose.
"I love you log pose, please take me to poshop island", Shay sighed hopefully, clutching the log pose, her only lifeline. 
The seabird squawked, seemingly in agreement.
Night fell again, she would have to start rowing aimlessly again, but before she got too discouraged the bird hopped on her lap and pecked at the log pose. 
"HEY OU-..... Ouch? OH. MY... YEAH!!!!!!! THANK YOU FRIEND WE ARE SAVED!", Shay cheered, the realization that the log pose lit up was her saving grace, and although her arms ached for the sweet release of slumber she rowed, rowed, and kept on rowing.
After a couple minutes the bird pecked Shay's log pose again, started squawking, and it flew up into the air. The waves were picking up at this point so Shay held onto the boat for dear life as she was rowing so she wouldn't lose it. Like it was the most natural thing ever, from the pecking, Shay deduced she was going the wrong way and the bird somehow knew where to go?? 
So far the seabird hadn't let her down, so she followed it, and since it was pitch black it squawked every couple of minutes (like echolocation) so they wouldn't drift apart.
Coming up in the watery distance, eventually Shay could make out the faintest light being emitted on the horizon. 
"OI BIRD AM I HALLUCINATING OR DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT TOO?", this was when the bird let out the loudest squawk ever and set course for the light.
 "WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!", Shay screamed like she wasn't about to pass out from exhaustion. It was so quiet, that Shay felt like the bird and her were the only beings alive in that moment.
After a while, Shay went into autopilot as she rowed robotically towards the light, all pain, all thoughts- gone, only "follow the light", which she whispered under her breath over and over to herself. 


Finally, as dawn started to break through she was approaching the ship. Shay squinted hard, as the now blinding light from the ship broke her out of the trance. Before she realized, the seabird had flown away and she was now standing in front of a GINORMOUS. cruise ship, at least she deduced it to be such because she could hear the loud live music booming from aboard the ship. 
Craning her head up at the sky, she shouted with all her might to see if anyone would notice her, but it was as useless as screaming into the oblivion.
 Realizing the ship was anchored, she rowed as close as she could to the anchor chain. 
Then, she plopped her seaweed stash into her pockets and tucked away her log pose. 
It was a brief swim away so once she saw the chain she made a beeline towards it. Thankfully, the waters were relatively calm so once she reached the chain she leaped onto it and she began to climb, once she scaled up the ship she found herself on a BUSTLING restaurant and hotel cruiser, there were so many people walking around, dining, dancing to the live music, it was overwhelming. 
Alas, her internal consciousness felt like she was safe now, and among the sea of people, she passed out in exhaustion.