What if you could choose to decide on which ship you sink to the bottom?
One ship is filled with the men you have called your brothers and sisters in arms. Its food is good and the wine is plentiful. Every night there is laughing and cheering while enjoying the pleasure of good company. People look out for each other and care about your wellbeing.
The other ship is filled with rats. The food is tasteless and the water to drink is foul. Every night there is fighting and the noise of argument that only gets suppressed by brute force. The rats do not look out for each other and only dare to look upon each other when in need or to pick a fight.
If you put it this the choice is easily made.
Yet what if the hole in the first ship is larger? Your life of good and plenty are easily spent if your time is as limited as the passing of the tide. All the tar that could have tightened the hole are spent. No salvation will be found on the bottom of the seas. The wine will flow away, the laughing and cheering will be silenced by the harshness of the water and all the food will be moist and inedible.
Yet what about the other ship? Their tar might run out as well but they have an alternative. The rats. Their blood will flow and shall grow thinker and thicker. Holes will be filled on the corpses of the plentiful. The tasteless food and the foul water will never bring cheer, yet they will sustain. The company will never be pleasant, yet there is company. The rats who are ever a burden will be suppressed like they always have been.
And why would all of the first ship go to pass, when there is still another ship on the horizon? Some of the food and drink could be salvaged. As well as some of its passengers, to the liking of the Saviour. They will survive under the presence of the rats, who are pushed down under the strong foot of the captain and its crew.
A ship that will not sink while there is still the black blood of the rats. A ship that will endure, until the end of time until all blood has been spilled and nothing is left to fill the holes. Then the crew and the captain will go down to the ever consuming deep.
Which ship is worth it?
