As everything quieted down even more, Danny could hear the sounds of a song from the deck, faint chatter along with it. She smirked, settling in further as she finished the last of the apple, leaving nothing but the stem and seeds. As she repositioned herself, she heard the music stop, someone speaking. Looking out, she crept from her hiding spot, listening in to the conversation. At once her mind started to whirr as she heard the tales of the black compass. She moved back to the crates before someone caught her, leaving as one pirate spoke of a tale about the instrument of navigation. Danny didn’t make it over to the door in time to hear where it was last seen, but she could see herself leading a crew straight to it, using maps made by the best mapmakers she knew of. She giggled, running her tongue over her teeth and bouncing where she was, full of energy and excitement.

“I could get that compass and return to Doctor W. and the others!” she said under her breath. “I’d be in their stories for generations to come! Ahh! That’d be so cool!”

She giggled again, but stopped and stayed completely still as someone came into the kitchen. She watched past the crates as a man moved around the area, before heading towards her hiding spot. Her brain kicked into overdrive, panic setting in, pushing all the excitement Danny had felt only moments before out of the way. She couldn’t move, even if she wanted to, she was caught, and given by the fate of the last person they had found; things didn’t look very good for her. So soon in her adventure, too, she hardly made it anywhere. Her panicked thoughts were interrupted when the man had actually found her, falling backwards with a crash of plates. She stayed stock still, eyes wide as she stared out past the crates, barely breathing. 

“I believe we have an uninvited guest!” Danny seemed to cower impossibly small as the words were shouted, another man sprinting to the first one’s side, offering to help him up, two swords in his other hand. 
“Where, Noland?” 
“Where is he? Alright, whoever's out there had better come out without a fight, or I go in there stabbing. Come out!" Danny was spotted again by the captian, and before she knew it, she was being lifted. Her mind blanked, and she didn’t come to her senses until she found herself tied on deck. The crew stared at her, and she shakily stared back, her lip quivering. Before she could reply, the captain noticed another ship headed their way. 
"It hasn't even been a full day, and this is the second time we've gotten attacked. The life of a pirate. Arm the cannons!" the captain turned back to the girl, after jumping off the giant of a man, and stared expectantly at her. She realized the taller girl was waiting for an explanation.
“I’m sorry, I wasn’t stealing I just want to go traveling and I can read maps and make them and I have a few apples and a couple maps and a compass and other things like that and I was on a navy ship the past week so I guess I have navy secrets and routines or something but please don’t kill me or throw me overboard or leave me to the slavers or eat me or something. I overheard about the black compass and while I don’t know anything about it I can certainly find maps to help find it and I’m real small so I can spy on people and fit into small places, I won’t take up much room nor will I eat a whole lot because I’m so small, I’m just really small and harmless but not defenseless and sick of staying in one place and I don’t want any treasure and I’ve just started, please don’t kill me.” Danny shouted, all in one breath, her eyes wide as she tried to calm herself down, to stop shaking. She didn’t know what else to do except stand where she was and prepare herself to be condemned in one way or another.