Serenica tried to run to catch the bookkeeper, but Spade stopped her.
"No. It will do no good."
The pirates left her, Indigo and the king-captain alone for a while. They lit the corpse candles and made the contract.
Serenica tasted blood. She hated deadrousing. The only situation she wanted to see dead people in was after they had lived good lives and passed away peacefully.
She had seen too much of this stuff. She wanted to escape, she wanted to get away from it all, but Spade needed her.
She blew out the candle.
She listened to Indigo gently guiding the dead man in reading. She realized it was too dark for that.
The dead chief gargled and spat at them.
"This isn't going to work," the king-captain groaned. "This will never happen."
"Unless we make a blood sacrifice," Indigo said. "We will need a literate person for this."
"I just remembered that I am illiterate," Serenica said.
