to say kaz is angry would be an understatement. the seventeen year old is livid, covered in blood that belongs to his wraith and oomen, and gloved hands shaking. he had gouged oomen's eye out and tipped him overboard, into the merciless waves of the sea.

"good," he had thought, clenching his jaw so tightly that it ached. *"the waves would show him more mercy than i ever would."

he had told jesper to get him a change of clothes before storming belowdeck into his private cabin. his leg aches, perhaps because of the sheer strength it took to carry inej with one hand, and grip his cane in the other.

he thinks of the wraith's condition when he left her with nina, and inhales. it hadn't been good. if inej died--

no. he wouldn't think like that.