Chapter 20

When the healer left, I pondered his words until a maid came in and cleaned up the mess. Then another one came in and left a bowl of soup, the latter helped me to take a bath and took me to another cabin. It was invigorating to wash off all the dirt of the trip, and the blood of those men on the road.

After this, she took me back to my own cabin, and then I began to think.

I was on my way to my new home, the Island where the ruler was a man I did not completely trust. I lay in bed for a few more hours, and as Mr. Carter had said, the tea calmed my stomach. Then I sat up in bed for a few minutes and looked out the window, we were on the high seas and the sun was setting. I looked at the untouched plate, I wasn't hungry.

I went back to bed and again the door opened. I didn't turn to look, imagining it was a maid coming to get the tray of food, I only realized it wasn't a maid when I felt the bed sink under its weight.

When I turned my face to face Commander Chase, he