Re: Once More at Sea
"Perhaps luck had nothing to do with it," Valentino replies. "After all, we were on his trail."
"What ARE they doing?"
"What do you suggest we do with these brigands? If we just leave them here tied up, their fellow brigand may come back and free them. Or, being as he is a brigand, he just may kill them himself."
"My thought is to tie them up and leave them off to the side of the road with a dagger nearby so that they can crawl over to it and cut themselves loose."
"I do not claim to be judge, jury and executioner, except aboard ship. While they may have intended on killing us, we were able to defeat them without killing them, though had we been forced to kill them, I would not have lamented their passing."
He walks over to where Father Carlos is talking to the stranger.
"Well met, sir. I am Valentino Iocovelli, and that is my friend Vasily Pavlychenko. Over yonder is our traveling companion, Lady Alessandra. We were looking for my cousin Prad who she seems to have found."
"What brings you to our aid in so timely a fashion?"
"What ARE they doing?" He says the last with yet another glance in the direction of Alessandro and Prad, and noting Prad's odd behavior.