petcromancer: (recollection)
Hector ([personal profile] petcromancer) wrote 2019-09-02 03:05 am (UTC)

[Hector's eyes narrow.]

What, is a bit of food and some basic medical attention going to harm you? Is it akin to sheering Sampson's hair off?

[They aren't a crew, really, but Hector is still the captain, and he has a responsibility to see to it that those on his ship have their needs seen to. He doesn't expect the captain of the empty and ridiculous ghost ship to understand that.]

If the rumors are true, following them would take us across an ocean that your father controls.

[He thinks, drumming his fingers on the back of the chair.]

...I know a witch, living near the coast in the colonies. She might have some sort of charm or talisman that would prevent anyone from scrying for our ship. That's the only way I could see us having a chance of sailing the open waters.

[He stands when Alucard finishes the bandages and pulls his shirt back on.]

Julia is a genuinely good person, and she's kept herself away from the vampire's court. I won't lead them to her door. I will only take us to her if we stay far enough ahead that we can be to her and gone before any of our pursuers know.

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