After more time recovering and slowly building up what he could eat, Mason was soon beginning to feel back to normal.
Anja had removed the stitches from his head which had been painful, but Ilona had stood watching him, so he was careful to try to hide the pain as much as he could.
The Pirate Captain hadn't been coming to see him over the last couple of days otherwise, so Mason wondered what he had done to offend her now. He assumed it was his comments in front of her man, but he was afraid to ask her about it and chance making things worse.
He kept himself mostly confined to his cabin as he recovered, but since she hadn't been coming to see him, he found himself venturing onto the deck more and more in attempts to catch sight of her. After days of nothing, however, he had come to the realization that Ilona must be avoiding him.