“That outcome was far better than the alternative, wouldn’t you say young lady?” The mans clipped accent made him sound like a perfect gentlemen, his English quite refined in comparison to the now quite dead, and very prostrate man with the knife in his throat. The grease ball stood up, wiping off his face with a suddenly appeared handkerchief that was a pristine white; from where he had materialized it from, Kaya couldn’t be sure.
“If you will excuse me child…” the man bent over double, a cough causing him to spit up flem before he straightened up again quickly moving over to the dead pirate’s side. Placing one boot on the pirates stomach, he leaned over and grasped the hilt of his buried knife, and yanked up, causing the blade to slice upwards through the man’s jaw, causing blood to blossom against the wall as he repossessed his weapon. He cleaned it off gently on the fallen pirate’s pants, and turned to Kaya, a solemn look in his shadowed eyes.
“The pirate life is not kind to us child, never hold presuppositions in regards to us. Not all of those who appear to be pirates are evil, just as not all that look like marines are good. Follow your heart as you select your destiny, and do the world a favor: be the best human you can, as you paint your destiny onto the canvas of life.”
With his significant speech spoken, the grease ball turned and vanished into the shadows. His words rang in kaya’s ears. She had never taken into consideration, that the image that she had been cultivating was slightly biased. For being only ten, she had considered herself to be quite intellectually superior to most adults; however, she had just been shown her errors. She shouldn’t hold herself aloft from society; neither should she create conceptual references to people’s psychological state within her mind. Judging without knowing was possibly worse than acting on assumption. Like her father had always told her: “Assuming is the mother of all fuck ups.”
Kaya ran from the fallen pirate’s side, deciding that there was no further reason for her to stay put near the corps. There was only one destination in mind now, and that was to find the port. The port meant boats, and boats meant that she would have an escape root from the island. She didn’t have an idea where she would escape to, but she knew it would need to be far from this island. This island, thought it was already teaching her valuable life lessons, was filled with the scum of the earth; marine and pirate alike, none was different here. All were blood thirsty criminals, who only wanted to see pillaging and death encompass the entire world’s circumference. |