To keep the Red Haired Woman from being implicated, Angel and Klein did not follow them into the harbor. Instead, they headed into the city behind the port to rest, assume new identities, and leave the sea, which was no longer safe.
Although the wanted notices in Damir Harbor had not been updated yet, Angel could guess that her bounty would rise considerably after this battle. Gehrman Sparrow, who had previously only been on a watch list, would inevitably acquire a hefty price tag too.
Both of them had also achieved their immediate advancement goals, leaving them no reason to stay at sea. Running was their only choice.
"Will Helene and her crew be all right?"
Standing on the balcony of their upper-floor hotel room, Klein gazed toward the harbor as he asked quietly. From there, he could see where the nearly ruined sailing ship was docked. Passing sailors and travelers looked at it with either mockery or pity.
"There'll definitely be an investigation. The ship is registered in her name, and I didn't use my own name when I funded it, but some of the sailors work for the military and the Church of Storms. It won't be long before the Mandated Punishers and the military come knocking.
"But Anne placed a restriction on them. At most, the Mandated Punishers will trace things back to me. They won't find any sign of Anne. She's a true angel; without enough confidence, they probably won't act rashly..."
Angel answered while sitting at the table, laying out the day's spoils one by one.
There was the Marauder Pathway glove that had "betrayed" Zatwin and which she had picked up, Zatwin's Beyonder Characteristic, the Beyonder Characteristic left by the Good Luck revolver after firing Dissolving Ray had destroyed it, and a silvery-white scale