CHAPTER 8
From his perch on the Quarterdeck Seb watched Emilia emerge from below deck. She’d been gone longer than he’d expected and his shoulders relaxed slightly at the sight of her. They re-tensed immediately when he saw she had a slave in tow. Clearly, she’d decided to do things her own way, whatever his opinion on the matter was. Still, he supposed he should be grateful she wasn’t leading a revolt of the entire ship full of slaves!
He watched her taking in the chaos on the main deck. She wouldn’t have been expecting to walk into a battle, but he too had altered their plan. When the pirates had lethargically boarded the slave ship, he’d had to let the fog around them dissipate. Otherwise he and Emilia would end up suffering the same symptoms of the fog as it moved over the shi
