She should have known that it was far too good to last for long and that her disguise wasn't good enough to last for long either. There was only so much on could do to disguise being a girl. Certainly she chest was strapped down and her curly hair tucked into a cap and she had long since swapped her skirts for britches. But there was no disguising
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He didn't even offer her a greeting, dark trenchcoat swishing behind him while the door creaked shut of its own accord. Her stared at her behind an odd, painted mask, certainly not befitting of a supposed pirate, boots clicking on the carpeted floorboard at his approach.
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"Identify yourself," he ordered after a long, uncomfortable silence. Apparently he cared little for personal space, face to face with her, pitch black holes in place of eyes seeming to leer. "And I'll go easy on you."
A shaky promise. If she had information he wanted and withheld it, there would be no mercy. And if she lied... well, the result would be bloody, to say the least.
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"I am a nobody." She couldn't help blurting, wanting nothing more than to back up more and hide away from this scary man. Nobody on the Yorktown wore masks. It didn't seem that common a thing.
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He began shouldering her up to the wall, forcing her back, like a predator stalking its prey. "Just a nobody? For you to even call yourself that, maybe you truly are no one."
He went on in that same icy tone, hand pressed above her. "I have no interest in your business, or in anyone else's. I'm just looking for someone, and you're going to tell me where they are. Is that understood?"
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"I understand. But I am just a nawigator. I hawe no information of anybody." Unless he wanted her to point him in the right direction of an island or content, he was wasting his time. Pasha was by large an honest girl and she valued her life too highly to waste it on lies.
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"Have you seen this girl?" he asked. "Or have you heard anything about her? Her name's Yin. She can't see--
His voice cracked the slightest bit, but he recovered quickly enough. "She can't see, so she would likely be led around by someone. If you know anything..."
Please.
"Then say so now."
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"I-..." There was something familiar about the hair and her eyes. They were so unusual it was difficult to forget them. "Tortuga." She answered. "I saw a girl who looked like this in Tortuga when we docked there a week ago to get out of a storm." A pirate stronghold and not a particularly nice one at that. "She was with another girl. Holding her hand. I don't know any more than that. Honestly."
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"Sorry," he apologized curtly, then turning away from her. "I have to keep up appearances here. These men can rot for all I care, but that girl is important."
Hei hesitated for a second, then reached up to remove his mask, revealing a head of dark hair and a pair of earnest blue eyes. "We lost our only navigator recently. Will you help me? To reach Tortuga. I can make sure you're compensated."
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"But I will nawigate you to Tortuga." She added, breathing a sigh of relief once he had moved away.
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