Lucius began moving towards the pirate ship with the guards and archers to arrest the pirates as well. Lucius wasn't very far off when Maria called on him to show some compassion for the pirates, as they had just been through a lot, experiencing losses on multiple fronts.
The commander didn't respond but kept going, thinking that would be the end of it, but Maria made another audible request, "Please, I plead with you, let me take one thing of value with me, or at least give me the chance to do justice to it!"
Now the commander was curious, so he turned back to the Queen for an explanation: "What are you talking about?"
"I wish to give my parents an honorable burial; part of them is chest-deep in the largest tent at the center of the camp. It is all I have left of my dead parents. So please, if I cannot have the chance to bury them formally, at least let me take the chest with me!" Maria pleaded, making the Commander even more confused.
