*Knock* ... *Knock*

"Come in..." Wiliam said, without looking at the door.

Ricardo entered the cabin, when training he noticed the captain concentrating writing in his diary, concentrated enough not to look up to see him.

"Captain, what do you require me to do?" Richard asked.

"Ah, Ricardo, you've finally arrived, there's something I want to discuss with you" Said the captain, leaving his notebook on a box covered by a red handkerchief and stopping to greet the cabin boy.

"Come, make yourself comfortable, sit over here" Said the captain with a smile, while he accompanied Ricardo to the chair and helped him sit down.

The captain, seeing the cabin boy, went to his decanter and prepared two drinks while he said:

"Dima told me, that this morning's incident affected you a little"

"Eh, about that… I didn't quite understand why… We killed Adrienne…" Ricardo said, with some doubt, whether he should talk about it or not.

The captain didn't answer, he just prepared his drink in silence, noticing this, Ricardo with more confidence continued: "I mean, aren't we honest merchants?"

"We are supposed to help the other sailors, who suffered 'the seas'"

"Take the tissue out of the box on my desk and see what's inside, but look carefully," Wiliam said forcefully, as he continued to make the drinks, unfortunately he didn't have Ron's skill.

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Ricardo with some hesitation obeyed and took out the handkerchief, he already knew what was inside, what he didn't understand, is why keep it.

"Ahh!" Ricardo shouted in fright, falling to the ground next to the chair because of the jump he sent himself, he just wanted to get away from that thing that he had in front of him.

As Ricardo supposed, inside the box was Adrienne's head, but what surprised him was that the skull of her head was opened very carefully, all the capillary layer of her hair had been removed, along with the part top of the skull. Exposing Adrienne's brain.

"Why the fuck did they do this to him?!" Ricardo asked scared.

"I told you to watch carefully, rookie..." Wiliam said, turning around and pulling the boy to his feet on the ground.

"Look at her! Do you notice anything abnormal?"

Ricardo looked at the head again with his brain in the air, this time he noticed that there was something moving in the girl's brain.

Looking carefully one could see a worm, long and thin, with skin full of blue and silver patterns, the worm would be very pretty to look at if it wasn't for the fact that it was happily eating Adrienne's brain.

"What is that shit?" Ricardo asked with some disgust, with his hand on his belly, trying to contain the vomit.

"That's the reason, because the girl didn't die being underwater in the middle of the ocean..." Said the captain, handing Ricardo a glass.

"In fact, I was surprised that you didn't understand Dima's winks, didn't you find the situation abnormal?"

"This... I thought she was referring to something else, with the winks" Ricardo said somewhat embarrassed.

"Well, it doesn't matter, as long as you don't get upset, it's fine, it's less and less to reach port, but the stress on board is getting worse and worse" The captain commented, somewhat concerned about the incidents that only he knew about.

"So much work always ends up affecting the head, and I'm afraid that someone will lose their sanity because of the nerves of the trip" Added Wiliam, already preparing the ground for rumors to spread on the ship.

The best thing for all the sailors, according to Wiliam, was to assume that the abnormal attitudes were only due to stress and would not be related to the attack of the sirens.