They managed to get the chief to accept a lot less than he had bargained for. Apparently the scrying woman had gone to him to get him to understand the rational course of action. Serenica felt uneasy about what the woman had said earlier, and therefore she had a serious talk with her friends about going south.
There was a certain medicinal herb that could aid with both weight loss and the management of the humors of the body, but it only grew in a faraway southern land, far from the southern border of Sennas, and while rough and tough men like the Admiral came from those areas, barely anyone had any idea what that place, a land patterned by a thousand lakes, was like, or what was needed to successfully trade and survive there. Their men were known for being hardened, and they had forests, of pines and spruces and all things beautiful and green, but all this beauty threatened to leave the pirates without direct access to their beloved ship.