Prixan’s Find By Thomas
• Thud, thud! Big birds hit the engine of the Learjet 45. “Oh no” shouted Prixan over the whining engines chewing themselves up. The smell of aviation fuel drifted around the cockpitlike a stink bomb. Prixan struggled to look through the heavily condensated windows. Then it came, tropical blue water burst into sight like a magician just created it.
• Over to the left was glittering gold sand. His accomplice was thinking of it as heaven when he remembered the suffering jets signalling to the lifeguards. It all happened at once, the plane hit the sand in the worst possible position, it cartwheeled forming a mini sand storm and burst into flames. • Prixan woke up, he felt lazy and wanted to go to hell with the flames as his brain was jumbled.
But he got out of the plane and onto the beach. He then limped to the water and fell into it. Some hours later when the flames had died down Prixan went back to the aircraft. Some hours ago he was a bright man wearing a black cloak and jeans. His Dutch Salam black had turned blacker than ash. His clothes were smoldered like sausages in a frying pan.
• Prixan made his way into the cockpit, and oh how he was shocked, Jeff his accomplice looked like he was well DEAD! “Oh he can’t be” sulked Prixan. But he soon overcame sadness, he then went out on the beach and slept under the thick vegetation. The next morning a palm fell over, Prixan got up silently and looked at it then… He looked at it, lush green, triple veined…
• He burst out a cry of joy he had found it the triple veined palm, that he had searched halfway round the world for. That exact specimen was used for curing mumps. But his excitement soon died down. Not that he knew it would be brewing up again. Some hours later the stillness seemed different and in came a‌
• Cruise ship! He flagged them down, into the bay it came they threw a rubber dinghy and soon he was enjoying coke on his way back to La Rochelle. He felt very relived but slightly depressed that Jeff had died. But when he was back he would be admired by thousands of people for accomplishing his mission to find the palm.