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"Murder On Board" 
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Luke and Margaret have boarded the SS Azara and are meeting their dinner companions for the first time but first, they must attend the mandatory fire safety drill.


"Our muster location was zone C, located on deck 7 in the Pelican Ballroom dance lounge. We arrived and found about two hundred passengers already gathered inside and an overflow of humanity stood outside or sat waiting in the window wells of the inside corridor. 

I scanned their bored faces and watched as they interacted with their partners and fellow passengers and crew. None of them would have been any the wiser of my intent, as I smiled and gazed at the people around me. The crew wore uniforms, with their lifejackets on and fastened. They guided new arrivals to any free spots in the already full corridor.

We were gestured to stand next to the bar counter and that’s when I accidentally stepped on the woman’s foot. She let out a little cry, reminiscent of a whimper from a small dog, rather than a human being’s cry of pain. I turned to apologise but in
doing so, managed to elbow her in the right breast. Her partner, an elderly man leaning on a walking stick, looked sourly at me but didn’t move a muscle.

“I’m terribly sorry,” I exclaimed, bending down to pick up her shoe which had fallen off. 

The situation almost worsened as my downward head motion to pick up the shoe, just missed her glancing upwards to see who the clumsy sod was. Disaster avoided, I slid her shoe back into place. Margaret then grabbed me firmly by the arm and marched me away. 

“I’m mortified! You damn near head-butted that old dear,” Margaret said, looking sternly at me before giving in to a fit of giggles. 

“Really,” she continued, “I can’t take you anywhere.”

Around us, the old folk were struggling to remain standing as the clock ticked past the 15-minute mark. Eventually, the voice of the ship’s captain, Peter Cox, boomed through the PA system and delivered succinctly the information on health and safety, before handing over to the muster station crew to instruct passengers on how to put on and wear their life jackets. Judging by the hopeless attempts made by some of the elderly passengers, a large number of deaths through strangulation in their cabins will most likely occur, long before the ship goes down.

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