[ WP ] A man is banished to the wilderness for 20 years . Write his diary entries for his first and last days of exile .

*Journal entry discovered on the inside cover of a book on Seed Crops and Irrigation in the Lowlands. The book was stored, along with other ones that survived their shipwrecks, in a heavy trunk. The empty pages were filled with minor notations. In some, even the margins were written in. This is the first record. * 
 
 One. 
 
 I woke half submerged by the rising tide as the high sun set and the low sun dipped its lower lip along the horizon. There was dried blood in my hair and down my neck and when I washed it in the salt water, it stung most awfully. 
 
 There is no sign of my ship or my crew. All that litters the beach is the `` treasures'' that those traitorous thieves sought and those treasures are the broken crates and containers of past ships that have broken on the barely submerged rocks and spilled their bellies upon the sands. 
 
 Other than the wound upon my head, they've left me with my shirt and my breeches. Bloody scavengers took my sword, my boots and even my good belt. When I get off this island, I will make new ones out of their hides. 
 
 For now, though, I must inventory what is available and see how best to survive on this sailor's nightmare. When that is accomplished, I will set about the best way to find those mutinous things and have my revenge. 
 
 I am not the kind of captain one betrays. 
 
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 *A single, soft stone with a broad, flat edge stands upright. It is half buried in dirt and a pile of stones around the base help keep it upright. The words on it are carved deeply into the stone, the letters slanting slightly downwards. * 
 
 An OATH in BLOOD and STONE, was made HERE. 
 
 Before the SUN and SEA, these words I SWORE. 
 
 Let no TRAITOR to ME walk free from FEAR. 
 
 HIGH or LOW, I will FIND YOU. 
 
 YOUR BLOOD IS MINE. 
 
 YOUR SOUL IS HERS.
