WRITING OBSTACLE
Your character has been kidnaped by a pirate and trapped in a dark dungeon below deck…
How can they use their other senses to determine where their abductor is taking them?
A Sense of Doom
“Okay I smell saltwater … wait that’s not helpful duh this is the ocean. Okay what can I hear? Waves. Oh, yeah because this is the ocean… right right and how does the air taste? Salty, musty, some kind of damp … wood, kind of like a ship!!! Oh … yeah because this is a ship. Right okay, well I can feel iron around my wrists, that must be something important … what could that mean?”
“If you keep talking to yourself out loud I’m going to ignore the captain’s orders and throw you overboard!!!”
“Sorry I just … I talk when I’m stressed.”
“Yeah well talk in your head, ever tried that?”
…
“I said have you ever tried that?”
“Oh, I heard you I was just replying in my head.”
“Right that’s it you’re walking the plank!!!”