He was alive, he thanked the Sea god for that and would sacrifice at his Temple for his good fortune. When the mast and come down and he had become entangled in the rigging he had thought he would breathe his last. But it had proved others wise, the mast part with him tied to it had ridden the waves like a rider on a buckling stallion.<br/><br/>His body ached and he was sure that his leg was broken by the shooting pains when he tried to move it. He began to try and undo the tangle of ropes around him. But they where sodden and his cold numbed fingers could get no where. Others most have survived as he had and they would be on this shore.<br/><br/>He heard movement and another thanks to the Sea God was on his lips as he turned his head to the trees that lined the shore. But his words died, it was no bedraggled survivor coming towards him. No it was a lizard, a giant lizard easily 6 feet long its tongue flickering as it advanced on the wounded prey.<br/><br/>Maruei, a hard-bitten tough seaman who had boasted he was scared of nothing began to scream like a woman as the lizard seemed to dart forward and seize his failing hand in its mouth. Was that the sound of his bones being crunched, his blood spurting out of the side of the lizard’s mouth? All he knew was that the pain was nothing like he had ever experienced and his screams got louder and higher pitched.<br/><br/>