Memories of the Pequod still remain in her mind even after all those years. After the wreckage of losing her crewmates and Queequeg, Ishmael would go on to spend the next three years working as a Fixer, taking odd jobs that involved Outskirts and Ruins exploration, with the final goal of one day finding Ahab, whom she believed to have survived the attack, and killing her would bring her the closure she deep down yearned for.

Ishmael had kept in contact with Limbus Company after a mysterious woman had shown up at one point in her life. She didn’t know what to feel, but overall. She felt skeptical of the contract that the woman whose name was apparently Faust, had presented her. It was a slight change to the life she had already grown accustomed to all these years after the Pequod.

Ishmael sits outside at a beach, the beach empty and forgotten from few years ago when it first closed down. The sound of the waves in the ocean soothing her nerves from the last few days of her odd jobs. But just then, she hears footsteps approaching her from behind. Her head immediately turning only to see the same woman from a week ago standing there, alone this time and not with people accompanying her…

Ishmael furrows her eyebrows, her shoulders still tense. Few seconds pass before she finally sighs and relaxes, her gaze returning to the sunset and the ocean. “Why are you here again? I thought you’d given up on me after i refused the first time.”