Danitz practically fled back to the safe house. The moment he stepped inside, he slammed the door with a bang, leaned against it, and gulped down air, his face still pale with fright.
"What happened?" Lorne, who had been studying those pages of Roselle's Diary, immediately rose to his feet in alarm at the sight of him.
"S-something terrible!" Danitz took a long swig of liquor before he barely managed to steady his pounding heart. His voice verged on tears as he complained to Lorne:
"Shit! I-I have a bounty on my head now, too! Seven thousand pounds! Dead or alive!"
"What?" Lorne was a little surprised, too.
He had long expected Alger to give Danitz up at the first opportunity once the Doppelganger Plan fell apart.
But Tracy's reaction still exceeded his expectations.
She was overreacting.
Offering a private bounty of seven thousand pounds for a mere "accomplice" went beyond simply taking her anger out on someone. This was revenge bordering on madness.
She was openly showing utter disregard for Captain Edwina.
Was that really necessary...?
"I'm finished! Finished!" Danitz paced restlessly around the room. "I'm in more danger than you now! My bounty's even higher than the second mate's official one!"
He knew perfectly well what happened in the Beyonder world to a pirate whose bounty far outstripped his strength. He would become a walking target, the top priority for every desperate outlaw hungry for money and fame!
"Has the captain's group reached the waters near Bayam?" Lorne asked calmly.
With despair written all over his face, Danitz told Lorne that the captain and the others still needed some time to get there.
Silence settled over the room.
Lorne, too, sank into thought.
"How about we move back near the Wave Church?" Danitz suddenly suggested. "At least those