so unfair! Why can’t Solomon stay behind!?”


    whatever…Next time, though, I’m going on the island and someone else is staying behind to guard the crummy ship!”


    Captain? They kidnap children. Do I look like a child? Huh~?”


    anyone even thinks about coming into my room to wake me up without at least one life-threatening wound or situation you can’t handle on your own…”


    look cool.” They each wore black boots that had the pants made out of tough material tucked into them which in turn had the undershirt, t-shirt, and long sleeve shirt tucked in it.


    Do not get yourself caught by those child abductors!” Was the heat getting to him, or was her hair beginning float in the air…? ‘No~ Must be the heat. Hair can’t just rise on its own…right?’


    and when you do~” The air around her stilled in response to her unconscious command.


    only slightly.


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    bad. The bone had managed to pierce the skin, revealing a jagged and bloody-


    similar wounds he’s had in the past beyond the basics of how to keep the leg from needing to be cut off. He’d seen what happened to those who didn’t reset the bone.


    hurt.”


    did regret was the fact that he’d lost his knives in their intense fight and ended up with a sword. Had he had any kind of knives or a weapon with a comparably smaller blade, he could have controlled the situation much more than he was able to.


    without anger or regret towards his actions, but also with a sort of peace.


    hurt him, at least the sharper ones hadn’t, his vision was severely limited as they pressed against his eye.


    blind, that pretty much prevented him from fixing himself. Besides, picking out the damn things by hand wasn’t exactly sanitary nor was it painless or even easy to do.


    wanted to trust them as much as he trusted his friends and mentors on the Oro Jackson. But it took time and shared experiences both good and tragic to forge such unbreakable bonds. And until then, he’d keep them all under scrutiny.


    Of course he knew Lilith would be eternally grateful to him for taking her in and rescuing her from a life of slavery. For giving both women the power and know-how to even somewhat defend themselves. And of course he knew that Solomon was equally grateful; even if he didn’t show it as often as Lilith tried to.


    three!” Lilith convulsed as the bone was forced back into her leg and reconnected with its other half.


    woah! It’s almost like you have these spikes coming out of your damn eyes sockets! How are you not on the floor in unbearable pain right now?”


    no flying.” Buggy had just barely left the ground before Solomon’s words grounded him. “The way things just ended up, I’m likely to lose my head if we risk that shit again. We’re walking.”


    would save their lives.