"Those idiots can go and do whatever they want, I am not dying here." Emily thinks aloud as she storms off,
Walking to her boat under the cold night sky, so she can retrieve the bag of treasure that she has stolen from that pirate clown, but for every step that she takes, something gnaws at the corner of her mind,
That thing, she does not know what it is, it is not fear, it is not sadness, or disgust, or anything that she knows of, but it is noticeable, and it drives her mad,
Ignoring it as best she can, she angrily trudges on past shops, farms and tired farmers coming home,
…
'I wonder if they're fine? I hope they're fine.' She thinks to herself as she keeps on walking, not paying any attention to where she's going, which leads her to accidentally bump into three little boys,
"Huh? Oh, it's the girl with orange hair." The boy with purple hair says,
"Hello there," She says sweetly, "What are you doing here?"
"We are searching for our cap-" The boy with glasses replies,
Cutting the boy off before he can finish his sentence, due to her patience running thin, "That's great, hey listen, we've already found your captain, he's fine, so all of you should go home, it is getting late." She explains with a smile,
Hearing this all three boys share confuse looks between each other,
"What happened to him?" The boy with green hair asks,
"A big mean animal was chasing him and we rescued him, he's healing at our camp."
"That's weird-" The boy with glasses mutters but a quick elbow jab to his side shuts him up,
"I'm happy to hear that, well that's that we did all we could, we'll be going home now." The green hair boy lies and heads off with his friends beside him,
"You sure you want to go home?" The purple hair boy asks but a quick elbow jab to his side shuts him up,
Standing there, she watches all three kids walk off until they disappear from her sight,
"Terrible liar but smart, most kids would have believed it, even that straw hat idiot." She mutters as she resume her walk, "well, if they start following me, I can always lose them."
...
Walking in silence, she carefully thinks over her next action,
"I could leave right now, but it wouldn't hurt to give the marine a call and report a pirate attack." She murmurs, "There is a marine outpost nearby, so they might get here on time, all I need now is a transponder snail to contact them, and the most likely place to get one is at that mansion"
She states, glances at Kaya's mansion and begins running in a random direction, making sharp turns, jumping over bushes, and with the grace of a cat she climbs up the nearest tree,
There she hides using the cover of the night and tree branches to conceal herself,
...
Sure enough, there is a rustle, some hush whispers and then three little boys rush in,
"What?! Where did she go?"
"Did she disappear?"
"No way Ninjin! Only ghosts do that!"
"But we saw her running this way Piiman, then she just poof, gone!"
"This can only mean, she's a man-eating ghost!"
"Shut it Tamanegi! There is no man-eating ghost look for her!"
"What about captain Usopp? She said he is at their camp, they might be cooking him right now, we need to find him now!"
…
"Piiman, We need to find our captain."
"Alright fine, we'll go find our captain."
With that, all three boys runoff, dust trailing them as they run,
Jumping down from her hiding spot,
"I don't look that much like a ghost do I?" She whispers, feeling a bit upset, but she quickly brushes it off and continues on towards Kaya's mansion.
