25: Where No Man Has Gone Before

"Why can't we go?!" Sestiva half-yelled, throwing her hands to her side in frustration. "You never let me go anywhere! Yet you get to go where ever you want."

"Sestiva. You can't go anywhere because you're so immature. All you'll do is embarrass me." Helen snapped, pushing Sestiva against a wall to move her out of her current path.

Sestiva groaned and pushed Helen back before sprinting out the door, looking over shoulder and yelling.

"There's no human at Cadiz, Helen!" Sestiva shouted, before blocking Helen out of her thoughts.

Sestiva stormed off to the dockmaster, where she was going to get her very own ship. She wanted to go alone. Without restraints from Helen.

She's so annoying. Why can't she just go away? She doesn't leave me alone. She's only two years older than me. Can't I make my own decisions?

The sand, kicked and turned over, picked up in the wind. Some of the sand got into Sestiva's eyes. She ignored it and pressed on towards the docks. The wood creaked under her feet as she stepped down the stairs to the docks. Temptation of sailing out on her own taking over her mind.

She could now see the faint figure of the dockmaster in the distance, standing on the far side of the dock. She approached, preparing what she had to ask.

"Excuse me, but what is the price of a small skiff?" Sestiva asked, hoping that she came across kind, and optimistic.

"Just 9,000 gold pieces, young lady. It's not that much." The dockmaster laughed. "The good thing is we're having a sale today. So the ship will be around 2,000 gold pieces."

"I'll be back."

Sestiva ran off back to her small home and opened the door as quietly as she could. Helen could hear the wind blowing in and found Sestiva at the front door, shutting it behind her. She waited for Sestiva to turn around to realize that she was standing right in front of her. Sestiva, turning around, walked right past Helen, as if she couldn't see her at all. Helen, annoyed by the response, grabbed Sestiva by her long hair and held her back.

Sestiva pulled her long hair out of her grip, and continued past, climbing the stairs to their rooms. In the corner of Sestiva's room was a chest, containing around 5,000 gold pieces. She grabbed one handle and dragged it down the stairs, the chest thumping along as it hit each and every stair.

Helen looked at Sestiva in wonder. She didn't know what Sestiva was going to do with all that money. She followed behind her, but only from a certain distance. She absolutely had to know what Sestiva was going to do with all of it.

Helen saw Sestiva disappear to the docks. She continued to follow her. Coming to a sudden stop, her gaze drifted to a new ship that appeared in the docks. She broke into a run, finding Sestiva standing next to the dockmaster.

"What do you think you're doing? Where are you going?!" Helen scolded, grabbing Sestiva's wrist and pulling her towards her.

"Buying a ship. Isn't it obvious? I'm going to Valencia to do the impossible. I'm going to go where no man has gone before. I'm going to go to the top floor of Cadiz, where I'll kill kane and bring back his mask for the whole Spiral to see." Sestiva explained, not showing any kind of reaction to Helen's sudden actions.

"I'm going with you." Helen replied, slowly releasing her grip on Sestiva's wrist. "You'll need me."

Here we have something before they embark on a journey to Valencia.

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-SamanthaHawkins