Marcos brought a few downwards strikes directed at Pars's back, but was surprised to find that all of them were parried by the slaver captain. He did not let up his barrage of attacks, though. Marcos kept striking, in hopes to distract him from the swordsman in front of him. If Pars and he met gazes, Pars would be introduced to a fiery gaze of determination and malicious intent towards Pars. Hatred from enslavement, labor, humiliation, pain, loss, and everything that he had to deal with his whole life of being a slave. And now that he was free, he would love to see Pars and the rest have a taste of the pain.

Marcos stopped his attacks on Pars and stepped away when the captain-or at least he thought she was the captain- gave the order to stop. It was too bad; Marcos wanted to gouge out his eyes with a smoldering torch and hang him from his nails and hair. But, he kept his tongue and arm, dropping the now broken carving knife. Marcos was then approached by said captain, asking him to explain himself. "I came from the slave ship you just plundered. I was hanging on to the edge of your ship, and one of your crew helped me up. Then, I started fighting any slavers that got on your ship, throwing them overboard mostly. Afterwards, I went back to the slave ship and attacked Pars. And, when everyone else stopped and Pars surrendered, I stopped. That's how I ended up here," he explained.

Marcos would continue speaking. "If you have space, I wish to stay aboard your ship, and join your crew. I wouldn't have survived much longer on that ship, and there's nowhere else to go, neither no one nor nothing waiting for me. I'll pay off any burden I cause when I'm aboard." After he requested what he did, he awaited an answer from the captain. He was sure the girl in front of him was the captain. Surely the youngest he'd ever seen. By his estimation, a young adult's age of nearly two decades: twenty. A little lower than twenty. Marcos didn't mind following the orders of someone younger than he is. A life of following orders without being physically able to do otherwise taught him to be obedient.