She waited a few more minutes and then decided to risk it. He wore blue jeans similar to hers, except the legs were wider, especially the cuffs at the bottom. She patted the front pockets of his jeans in search of a wallet. As she did, she held her breath, waiting for his eyes to flash open and for him to scream at her to leave him alone.
He hadn't woke up by the time she finished searching his front pockets. With a sigh, she decided to roll him onto his stomach to search his back pockets. She hoped his wallet hadn't fallen off of him during the storm so she wouldn't lose this opportunity to learn more about the mainland. There was a possibility he might keep it in the bedroom or perhaps in another room of the ship.
She decided to stop putting it off and just get it over with. She groaned as she rolled him first onto his side and then the rest of the way onto his stomach. The man still didn't wake up; he just lay there like the dead fish she had found.
Even without patting his pockets, she could tell from the bulge in his rear left pocket that his wallet was in there. She stuck her hand into the pocket and felt a leather rectangle. She paused a moment to make sure he wasn't waking up and then yanked the wallet free.
Like a frightened animal she scurried over to a corner with the wallet in her hands. She curled up in the corner so he wouldn't see her going through his wallet should he wake up. If she were lucky, she could look through the wallet and return it before he woke.
The wallet was made of one large piece of leather folded over to take up less room. She flipped it open to reveal rows of cards made out of a thin, hard material. Plastic, she remembered. She took a card with the title "Discover" in shiny print that seemed to change color as she tilted it in the light. Beneath the title she saw a row of numbers that had no meaning to her.
Below that was a name in raised letters: Hector X. Delgado. That must be the man's name. She closed her eyes, hoping this might trigger some memory, but it didn't. She put the card back into its slot and then went through the others.
The fifth one she took out was the mother lode. It had the word "Maine" printed in green. Beneath that was a small picture of the man from the boat, his face less lined and without the beard. The name on the card was Hector Xavier Delgado, confirming her suspicions. The card listed his height at six-foot-two, his weight at two hundred ten pounds, and his birthday as July 7, 1965. That would make him just a month away from thirty-nine years old. According to the card, he lived in a place called Portland. The card also stated the obvious fact that his hair was black and also that his eyes were brown.