The Monsters

We had just reached the point in this unfortunate adventure that I hoped we would never have to reach. We now needed to pass the Scylla and Charybdis. These were two of the most gruesome monsters that you could ever hope not to see within a mile of each other, and we needed to face them. Some of us were going to die, it was just a question of who and how many. We needed to just make a mad dash through the strait in which these monsters were in. As we sailed past the Scylla, the Scylla picked up six men off of my boat in its six mouths. Good, we were past one part. But now we needed to get past the whirlpool of Charybdis. My remaining men tried to go around the whirlpool, but its current was too strong. It pulled us in...