At her soft call, two little heads popped out from beneath the crates, both looking thoroughly shaken.
"Phew, we finally escaped, Sister. Those Celestial Dragons won't catch up to us, will they?" Sandersonia asked quietly.
Hancock turned back with a light smile. "No. We're already far from Mary Geoise. The Celestial Dragons can't catch up."
"That's good. But I wonder when we'll be able to return to the Amazon Islands." Marigold crawled out as well, hope gleaming in her eyes.
The three of them were naturally the Boa Sisters, who had escaped from Mary Geoise. After fleeing in secret, they had slipped aboard this ship without anyone noticing.
Even the other slaves on the ship did not know the three of them were here. They had been hiding in the hold for two days already.
"Sister, should we go ask them to take us home? If we just let this ship drift, we may never make it back. And even if we secretly got off at an island along the way, we have no money, so we still couldn't return to the Amazon Islands," Sandersonia said softly. Though she was young, her life as a slave had already forced her to mature greatly.
Marigold hurriedly nodded as well. "That's right. We've already escaped successfully. The people on this ship were slaves before too, so they should be willing to take us home."
"No!" To their surprise, Hancock refused without a moment's thought. Seeing the confusion in her sisters' eyes, she lowered her voice. "We absolutely cannot let them know we're on this ship."
After thinking for a moment, she explained, "We still don't know who controls this ship now. Even if they were slaves before, we can't trust them completely. In any case, we'll find a way to get off