[The captain only knew that he'd had another crewman go missing when things got real quiet around the ship. He checked and double-checked, and it looked like it was Cynthia this time. At first, he stormed onto the Tartle to find the nearest Navy-affiliated patrolman and shook him down, making a rather convincing case with his fists, but the hapless Navyman knew nothing. Nobody had been captured or arrested, certainly not any blond women who likely would have put up a hell of a noisy fight.
So, when they were politely encouraged to get the hell off the island, Gan Ning reluctantly left without her. No amount of searching or questioning (or threatening) got him any information, and her journal was gone, so he forced himself to believe she'd been sent home, and set course for their original destination. It bothered him more than he let on, so the good mood he had managed for about three days reverted to the dark sulk he had been in prior to their landing.
Once they reach Deesuko Ballia, Gan Ning's only instruction to the crew is to set a rotation for one person guarding the ship at all times, and then he disappears himself. No, not like the others, he merely gets himself deliberately, irretrievably lost in the maze of bars and brothels. He has a lot of diamonds to spend in pursuit of forgetfulness, and losing another person mixes with a sudden upswell of homesickness is reason enough to get so drunk and crazy that no one can stop him.
Sailing and the Deesuko
So, when they were politely encouraged to get the hell off the island, Gan Ning reluctantly left without her. No amount of searching or questioning (or threatening) got him any information, and her journal was gone, so he forced himself to believe she'd been sent home, and set course for their original destination. It bothered him more than he let on, so the good mood he had managed for about three days reverted to the dark sulk he had been in prior to their landing.
Once they reach Deesuko Ballia, Gan Ning's only instruction to the crew is to set a rotation for one person guarding the ship at all times, and then he disappears himself. No, not like the others, he merely gets himself deliberately, irretrievably lost in the maze of bars and brothels. He has a lot of diamonds to spend in pursuit of forgetfulness, and losing another person mixes with a sudden upswell of homesickness is reason enough to get so drunk and crazy that no one can stop him.
They can, however, join him...]