DREAM

News footage of the yachts interior : open cupboards with food and supplies spilled across the floor, bloody hand prints on a table top - more bloody hand prints down a hallway - small, child-like, bloody prints on a shower stall door.

Pull back -- the images on a TV screen.

You hear your own voice talking to the anchorman : "All the passengers show signs of the mysterious illness and many are in a serious condition. We don't know if we will be able to get them to medical attention in time to save them. Two crew members and a passenger were already dead before we even arrived. Pardon me Lloyd, I didn't catch that? No. No, their daughter didn't make it. She was ten."

You should never have picked them up. You should have left them there and burned their boat behind you.

As your own boat bobs slowly toward the shoreline, you can't shake this crazy feeling that you are already infected.