Silence

Chapter 7

Jordan

I look down at the poster I picked up, a dry feeling in my mouth. Even with the idea that Dianite had a bounty on her, it seems wrong. The picture has so much detail, every freckle on her face present in the picture yet it looks like she's been made to look purposely weak. She looks young, yes, but even so, she looks intimidating yet the picture makes her seem little more than a child. The weirder part is the text, while the wanted alive part was expected the smaller text surprises me. 'Captain Capsize of Ianarea' and some coordinates that are much further away than I've ever been. The name Ianarea is definitely her home, obviously a name for a city of Ianite followers but it still nearly terrifies me that he's giving out the location of her home to us - she isn't even there anymore. Does he expect her to run and us to track her?

As Sonja yells at Tucker for his somewhat tasteless joke, I let my eyes travel over to the siblings. Red, despite Dianite's efforts, is awake, Capsize is helping him to his feet as well as hugging him slightly. She looks a little upset as she looks at her brother, a look in her eyes that makes it seem like this has happened before. Of course, that's not really possible, I doubt he has a lot of opportunities to yell at gods. I'm not exactly sure if I should be worried about him or impressed at his bravery, I'm not sure if I'd have the guts to yell at Dianite like he did. Capsize clearly was worried by it though, she was running over to Red nearly before he hit the wall.

"So I guess you know about Dianite's request for Capsize now," Redbeard mutters as he and Capsize walk over to us. He's clearly putting himself in front of Capsize as his eye glances over the posters we're all still holding. Capsize doesn't seem to care that we're holding them (she didn't react to Dianite throwing them to us in the first place honestly), she even smiles at me.

"You mean you knew that Dianite would be here and you still came?" Sonja asks, honestly sounding a little impressed. I can't really say that she shouldn't be since I was surprised when I found out last night. Capsize nods, getting a reaction from Tom and Tucker who I guess though she was happily obvious. She taps her communicator, typing to us all rather than signing to Redbeard.

Lady Ianite asked me to, I couldn't exactly stay behind and force my crew to come instead. She seems so casual about it, though I wonder who exactly her crew is since I doubt it's just Redbeard (it can't be just him, it's also odd that Capsize and Redbeard came here alone since that was something requested by Ianite). I know this isn't the time to ask her about the people who work for her. Not the least because others talk before I can.

"So what are we going to do about getting Ianite's heart then?" Tucker asks, causing Capsize to become confused. I suddenly feel a sickness in my stomach as I realise that the others don't know what Ianite told me last night, she wants Capsize to help get her heart. No matter what the others think, I'm going to let her help.

Lady Ianite asked me to help and I intend to. There's a slight twitching in her eyes as she looks at everyone's reaction. It's tiny and I don't think they notice but I do, I see the tiny hints of fear. No, not fear... more like she's seen people acting like this before and it didn't end well.

"But Dianite will just set a trap, I don't even want Jordan to go in there," I look at Tom slightly offended before realising how much worse it must feel for Capsize. When I turn back to her she's signing to Red, no longer wanting us to understand her. Once again, I'm stuck listening to a one-sided conversation as worry grows in my stomach.

"They can't stop you from doing your job."

"Any particular reason for that?"

"I... What does that have to do with anything?"

"O- of course, Captain," Redbeard stutters out, a slight blush on his face hidden below his beard. Capsize sticks her tongue at him in what seems to be an act of fun between the two. Without thinking, I jog after Capsize (weirdly I'm not stopped by Redbeard despite him not allowing the others to go after her). When she sees me she smiles, tapping her communicator a few times in order to switch it to only message me.