“We’ve been out in some of those storms.”
“Yes, boy, we have. Lost the left engine on the way back from Green Turtle Island that time. You remember that trip? Do you remember late in the afternoon when I was completely done in and you were steering? Jesus, you were steering through line after line of 20-foot rollers. It was relentless, and I was trying best I could to rest, but I got fed up with you up there, hour after hour. So I stopped being useless and offered to get got a drink. You remember that?”
“I remember the rollers, but I don’t remember that.”
“You said you’d take a tot of rum, Cockspur, and I asked if you wanted ice.”
“Oh yeah…”
“And that’s when I knew you were your daddy’s boy, because you looked back at me in between rollers and your face was white around the eyes, nostrils flared, and do you remember what you said?”
“I said…”
“You said, ‘No sir, I believe I am beyond ice.”
