85. The reasons

[Carys]

“If you want to keep up with the updates on SW and someday wish to find Morana, you will take this,” Verity said. She was trying to convince Nox to take the phone in a hostile, threatening tone.

“But I don’t know h-how to use it,” Nox said timidly.

“Oh, you fool. Look here! This is for calls and this is for messages. This is all our contacts, and this is for checking the group messages. We’ll be using international communication until our private communication comes into action. All you need to do is recharge it from time to time…”

“That is an extra expense every month. I don’t have gold to waste on that. I don’t want it. If the captain finds out I took this from you, she will be very mad. I am only in this until I find my captain. After that, I am off with her on the sea for good. Never coming on land again. Captain was right all along. People on the land drown faster than the ones who sail on the sea. We shouldn’t have stayed on the land for so long—”

“Take the fucking p