As Silver questions her, he finds out that she is a runaway and that this sailing vessel was stolen. Good, he thought, she should pose no problem for me.
Dawn cuts into his thoughts by asking him, "I don't want to offend you, , but would you be, by any chance, the famous cyborg that the Royal Navy is in hot pursuit over?" Silver wonders at her knowledge and is a bit uneasy at this information. Nevertheless, he replies," Heh, you're not one to mince words, are ya lass? There's no use for me to deny it.. I suppose I am. Forgive me for askin', but, uh, how did ya know that I'm a cyborg?"
"Well, because when I shook your hand it didn't feel...quite...right. And when you were shifting your weight or moving, one foot thumped like...ummm...heavier sounding than the other one. Not to mention the fact that I keep hearing this unsettling whirring. So my conclusion that you are one turned out right which is sort of surprising." Then she pops the question he had been dreading to answer. "Where was her brother Seth?"
Silver couldn't bear the thought of telling her what he'd caused to happen so instead he said with real heartfelt emotion, "Your brother got shot at by a (sighs) a companion of mine. He saw the uniform and fired out of reflexive action and in the commotion...your brother...fell of his position from the prow and got sucked into the etherium." He goes on to say that his companion suffered the same fate as well. Dawn seems to believe him for she does not show any signs of disbelief. Her face turning a shade of white, she goes into a small state of shock and keeps muttering that she needs to get someone to help her get to the Reis Nebulae and that she needs to find where Nimbus is. Silver couldn't help but wonder at this girl. She was blind, yet she is talking as if she is the captain, spouting off coordinates and whatnot. He feels terrible about his actions and how he blatantly lied to her. And to make matters worse, he was Ursidian instincts started to develop a sense of needing to protect this...this...this victim now that she no longer had anyone to do so.
Suddenly, Dawn seems to snap out of her state of shock and quickly feels her way to an adjacent room and begins to start working the controls of a strange-looking machine...which Silver soon finds out are actually controls for the ship. She punches in some coordinates and before he knows it, the ship is staring to gain speed. Silver steps in front of her and blocks her from the controls. "Now hold on here, lass, you can't do this."
"I need to go back to our last stop," she replies and tries to push him aside. "I know what I'm doing, . Perhaps you could help me out a bit by keeping a lookout?" "A lookout? How about I steer the ship and you just step aside," Silver said getting perturbed. And he tries to lead her over to one side. Dawn, with a stubborn resolve ,remains where she is and with an exasperated sigh ,pulls a lever. Silver then hears a low humming sound reverberating around the ship and before he can say "watch out" a large adult Megaptera Galacticus flies dangerously close to the ship.
A/N :For those of you wondering what Megaptera is, it is just a fancy scientific name for the humpback whale. ;) Here is a bit of suspense for you! :O