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Jo was sat on a truck near the fire watching jj place more wood into it, then he sat next to her and she rested her head against his shoulder.
"you okay?" he whispered
"yeah just...my voice got low"
jj chuckled "after singing all night? of course you do"
"hey, guys" pope spoke "so, like. my dad's already gonna kill me. so what's this mandatory meeting about?"
john b looked at jj for advice pointing to him finger guns
"might as well tell him, man, before we're gaffed"
"come on, vlad, spit it out" jo joked
john b rolled his eyes "oh, jesus"
"i should have bet on that" jj laughed
"okay, you ready for this?" john b asked
"yeah" kie said
jo intertwined her fingers with jj's playing with his rings, both of them resting their arms on jj's leg
"so, the gold never went down with the royal merchant"
"oh, my god" pope groaned "here we go again with this"
"no. all right, wait" jj said "hear him out. all right?"
"it's been here the whole time. it's on the island"
"are you serious?" "what the fuck?" kie and jo said at the same time
"i'd like to voice my skepticism" pope interjected
jj rolled his eyes "i'm sure you would, pope, but can i please present you with my evidence, sir?" john b said
jo and jj were only half listening to john b, both of their gazes staying on their intertwined fingers
"proceed"
"all right. so, in my backpack, i have a letter from denmark tanny" jo gaze moved from jj's hand to john b in shock
"who the hell's that?" kie asked
"he was a slave that bought his own freedom" jo said
"how do you know that?" jj asked looking at her
"there's a paint of him in ward's office. he told me some stuff"
"yeah he was a slave but he survived the royal merchant wreck" john b said "check this out" he handed kie a piece of paper "okay, slaves weren't mentioned as crew members of the ship, but my dad, he found the complete manifest. that was his big discovery. so tanny used the gold from the merchant to buy his freedom, as jo said"
