Chapter 22: Truth about the D.E.I.C. ship.
Putting her feelings aside, she looked at him with relief written all over her face. The fact that he had carried her, holding her tight made her feel more than safe. She felt at home. It was a strange feeling but one she would consider later. There were more pressing issues at hand.
“When I came on board, I wanted to report you, but then I noticed the crew’s strange behaviour, very peculiar for a D.E.I.C. ship. My father has met with many of those men. They all have a certain air of self-assurance about them; but this crew was eerie, scared. That I found very odd at the time. When I reached the captain’s cabin, the substitute captain was fuming. When his second-in-command joined him, they talked about someone they were looking for on the Contra O Vento, someone that they wanted to kill. No names were mentioned, but he was very angry.”