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Hearing Shouta's final words made her sigh under her breath. Now she was even more in the wrong for not taking Ray's sword? She must have been more inexperienced with this captaining thing than she thought...It made her think of back home. She could've been a part of some crew, passing up the leadership role. But here she was. She took her hat off, the one she normally wore, and held it in her free hand. [I]'How on earth did I convince these guys to join up with me?'[/I] The captain could only sigh and keep walking. There was a lot of work to be done. 

 It made sense for Alicia to go to the docks rather than get lost on the island. Runali followed the path back to where their ship was docked. It was easy to pinpoint her two crewmates sitting at the dock together. When she got close, Nolan stood and smiled, but his smile faded as he sensed something was wrong. Before he could speak, Runali looked over at him, and he quietly nodded, moving away. He decided to go find Banba and the others in order to see what he missed. 

The captain stood at for a moment before sitting at Alicia's right side. Her gaze stayed out to sea, mainly because the swordswoman was on her blindside. The silence stretched on until she placed the broken dagger in between them, and tossing her hat on to the ground in front of them. 

"'You will show it to her an' you will keep it as a token of yer shame', he said. 'That woman represented you and yer crew, but she failed to even leave an impression.'" She repeated the words Shouta told her, feeling that Alicia needed to hear them as well. "We've got a long way to go in becoming anything representable. I'm no perfect captain either... I'm not even qualified to lead a crew. Probably one of the most impulsive decisions I've ever made too." She paused, picking up the hilt of the broken dagger. 

"My mentor gave me this. A gift to start my travels. At the time, I thought it would be easy. Get a few people, sail the seas, see different places and things...But it's so much more than that. There's a lot of things we've never seen." Another pause went by and she shrugged. "But hey, who says we can't get better? I mean, we have a world in front of us, and a sturdy crew. We can both improve right?"

A soft laugh escaped her and she shook her head. "But, what do I know? I'm just some kid after all. You guys have years of experience ahead of me."