Island of Secrets: An Odyssey with Olivia and Dan

"Dan, where are you taking me?" I asked the man who had brought me to this island.

"To my house." He replied in a simple tone. He was tall with a long brown beard and a matching hair-do. The sun shone on his face as he looked down at me from his horseback.

"You live here? On the island?" I questioned him as I stroked the soft fur of his horse.

"Of course." Dan responded in a voice that said 'you don't live on an island?'

I looked back out at the ocean, it was beautiful but also scary. The water crashed against the shore and sometimes splashed onto my shoes. It was so loud that it made me wonder if there were any other people living on this island, or if any pirates would come and take us away in ransom. I tried to push these thoughts from my head as we rode closer and closer to Dan's house. It wasn't a big house but it was still better than what I lived in back home. His house had a large field with flowers in front of it. There was a small barn beside it and a few chickens walking around. There must have been more because they were running away from us as we got closer to the house. A strange barking noise could be heard as we approached his door step, I've never heard anything like it before, almost like howling but not quite. Whatever that noise was, it didn't sound threatening so I figured Dan was safe enough here. The barking stopped once we reached the front door and went inside. Once inside I couldn't believe what I saw: there were fish everywhere! In glass cases, on the walls and even on the ceiling! How does someone catch so many fish?

"Dan, how do you catch all of these fish?" I asked him standing near one of his fishing poles with a bunch of different types of fish attached to it on display.

"I've been fishing since I was young boy." He said with a smile pushing some stray strands of hair behind his ear "now it's time for your surprise!" He then walked over to another room and motioned for me to follow him inside. Inside were two beds side by side with wooden frames and blankets lying across them "here you'll sleep." He told me. They looked pretty nice compared to my bed back home which was nothing more than some old sheets laid out on the floor next to my brothers' bunk beds. "Now let me show you something else" he continued as he exited the room through another door just off to the side of where we stood when we first walked in.

"What is that smell?" I asked him as he opened the door revealing a room full of trash cans filled with fish guts "that's what makes all these fish smell so good!" He exclaimed after noticing my reaction to the smell "now watch this!"

He picked up one of the trash cans and took out what looked like a knife from his pocket "this is my favorite knife!" He said pointing the knife into one of the open trash cans "now make sure you don't move!" He instructed me before taking some eggs out of his pocket and cracking them open into each trash can with his bare hands right beside mine! This must have been what he meant by giving me a surprise because now there were eggs mixed in with all this fish! "Now watch this!" He repeated himself while putting something over his nose and mouth so only his eyes showed through the holes in whatever he put on "now make sure you don't move!" He repeated again before picking up one of those trash cans full of eggs mixed in with dead fish guts, dead crabs mixed in with dead shrimp mixed in with dead whales mixed in with dead octopus mixed in ....*gasp* ...dead humans?! What has he done?!

The smell started to get overwhelming as I could feel myself getting sick but Dan continued putting trash cans into something larger until there were only three left!

 "What are you doing?!" I yelled at him removing what was covering my face after seeing that awful mess!  I quickly ran outside where there was fresh air but somehow things weren't much better outside because Dan had turned that same machine towards himself and everything including that terrible smelling gas came at me!

Dan stood up right next to me holding what looked like some kind of birthday cake covered in fish guts!  I screamed loudly and ran away from both him and that machine while tripping over my own feet trying to escape!  

 As I ran outside though, I didn't get far because Dan caught up to me very quickly grabbing my arm and throwing me into one of those machines again!

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