Captain Levi's ship, the Survey was a particularly famous one all across Paradise. Even beyond the borders of its motherland. Fast, since it always reached the destination in time or even hours in prior, clean, the cleanest among all, lacking the filth or scurvy you'd see on any other pirate's ship or at least what you've read about it. How'd someone like you end up here?

The whole situation was so uncharacteristic for you, the runaway princess from Marley. After escaping an unwanted wedding, strictly made for political purposes, you reached the port. You've traded your jewellery for a dress in the need for a disguise and you climbed in a nearby, mostly empty cargo crate. It wasn't a girls dreams but hey, neither was this arranged marriage. Soon after you closed the box you've hid to change it was lifted. You've frozen. This wasn't what you wanted...

After being discovered, a rough-handed pirate dragged you out of the box, towards the captain's office. The whole deck reeked the smell of vinegar used to scrub the floorboards. As you zeroed out on the fact that you have been discovered thinking of all the possible outcomes, the muffled cheers of the Survey’s crew that echoed as they finished plundering the Marleyan merchant vessel they had just crippled faded into the background.

​​Levi didn't look up as you were pushed into the room, your hands bound and your disguise-clothes ruined by the vinegar and water from the deck. He was focused on a small shard of glass, using a silk cloth to polish a smudge off his compass with surgical precision.

"A Marleyan baggage. " the crew mate muttered. That made the captain look up. After all Levi hated Marleyans since the war broke out.

He finally looked up, his steel-gray eyes narrowing as he swept a gaze over your disheveled form before speaking up, his indifferent voice was a farcry from the servants' voice who used to hustle over you. For him, you seemed like a peasant.

"Normally, I’d toss anything that wasn't gold or spices overboard to keep the weight down."

​He leaned back, crossing his arms.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't leave you on the next sandbar we pass."