44: Bullshit

"Put it back, Sestiva." Helen ordered, spinning her rifle on the strap to ease her boredom. "Where'd you find it anyways?"

"I found it within the fortress." Sestiva said, playing around with what she found, trying to take it apart, but with no success. "It's the Armada's. One of the soldiers dropped it while we were fighting. I think it's a secret weapon of mass destruction, don't you think?"

"Put. It. Back. Now. You never know when it'll explode or something. Throw it off the island. Do something with it, but you mustn't keep it here. Especially since we just escaped Cadiz itself, the Armada is still after us. They could be looking for it."

"Knowing you, Helen, you don't want the Armada to get the upper hand do you? If they have an advantage with whatever this thing is, then might as well keep it, right?" Sestiva bounced it back and forth in both hands, sending a wave of panic through Helen's body.

"Get rid of it. It's still too dangerous for us to keep it. So get rid of it now."

Sestiva didn't budge. She spent all the trouble trying to figure out what it was and yet Helen was trying to make her get rid of it. If only she knew what it did, then she would be able to keep it.

Wait! Couldn't I just use magic to fake it? It'll be enough to make her seem like I through it when it's in my cave during that time. Helen's always has been very gullible. Falls for the slightest tricks.

"…twenty—three ships are alert all around Valencia so we must find a way to escape to Marleybone if we can an—" Helen informed Sestiva, but Sestiva was tuning her out, focusing on what to do with the small object in her hand. "—Sestiva are you even listening? Hello? Hey!"

Sestiva snapped back from her thoughts, forcing herself to make eye—contact with Helen.

"It's a good plan. When do we start?" Sestiva asked, assuming she knew what Helen was talking about earlier.

"Tonight." Helen replied, turning around and leaving.

Sestiva stumbled down the stairs to her cave, putting the object down on the floor. She began a pattern of movements with her staff to make a duplicate image that remained useless no matter what the object actually did. Bright purple lights from the spell bounced off every wall, illuminating the room in purple, Sestiva's hair flying back. She put the real one in her bag along with several Pathogen bottles, to hide that it was there. She picked up the duplicate and went to the surface to talk to Helen.

"Helen! I tried to figure it out, but I still don't know what it does. I guess I'll be throwing it away now." Sestiva pouted and sadly walked over to the island's edge. She threw it as hard as she could away from the Island, watching it fall. Though, the look on her face was just a mask. She smirked as she watch it disappear beneath the thick layer of clouds below everything, wiping it off her face as she turned around, showing the mask once again.

"Did you really throw it, Sestiva? Or was it a fake one, like you always used to do with things back at home." Helen asked suspiciously.

"I did, Helen. No need to get suspicious." Sestiva muttered, rolling her eyes.

"I still think you're lying. Oh well. Your loss, not mine." Helen walked away quickly to figure out an escape route for them to take without being spotted.

Sestiva's smirk returned once Helen had her back turned. She pulled out the object from her pocket and stepped back into her cave, pressing everywhere on the object to somehow open it.


Post-Cadiz stuff, yay! Also, happy Father's Day! Please leave a review and I hope you enjoyed!

-SamanthaHawkins