It wasn't the men he had killed that kept him awake that night, but rather the one's Sybil killed.  Her method was so fast, so deadly.  He watched her sleep on the ground and thought of her only as a child.  She looked innocent and pure, but whatever was within her gave the pirate the chills.  

Before long he fell to sleep, and he dreamt of something quickly forgotten.  It only felt like seconds when he suddenly woke up again, Sybil shoving him and yelling in his ear.  He grabbed the girl and tackled her over to where she now lay back to the dirt, while simultaneously pulling out his blade and stabbing it just past her left shoulder.

[color=steelblue] "Good morning," [/color] he said with a smile, then backed off of her.  His blade stabbed into a scorpion that had been crawling on her back, its' legs and tail still squirming with the blade pinning it to the ground.  Dalious flicked the scorpion away and then sheathed his weapon again.  [color=steelblue] "Saved your life twice now in just two days, must be a record." [/color]

The pirate stretched and then plopped down again next to the already lit fire.  He began cooking breakfast, the burnt rabbit meat, and cracked the bones in his body that needed cracking.  When breakfast was done and the horses were loaded, they were off again toward the ocean.  The dark forest was quickly clearing away as they came out of it, not needing to head through it to reach the sea.

[color=steelblue] "In order to head east, we need a ship," [/color] he started.  [color=steelblue] "The next town is a gutter hole, a real piece of shit.  It is Imperial owned, but its easy enough to sneak through there.  Lot of drunks and losers.  Gambling town." [/color]  He had been there a few times before, though he was very young and hardly remembered it.  The band of pirates he joined up with went there a few years back, when the world was somewhat peaceful.  

[color=steelblue] "The reason I was to be hung, was because a dwarf named Grefolin betrayed my captain and those loyal to him," [/color] He said.  [color=steelblue] "Traded us to the empire, and so here I am.  Now, that was just the other day.  If I know that treacherous dwarf like I do, I'd say he took the Sparrow for himself along with whatever gold the Imperials gave him."  [/color]  He spit to the ground, he was angered just thinking about the traitor.  [color=steelblue] "Which means he's in the King's Sea and has to circle back to Tortugal, the place we are heading to.  There, I will get my vengeance as you have gotten yours.  Also, the Sparrow.  Fastest ship in the sea.  After I kill the dwarf, we will need to find a crew to sail it.  So try not to kill everyone.  We must make haste!" [/color]

Dalious jumped on his horse and freed the ones they didn't need.  Then it was back to the path.  If they rode the day and into the night, they would reach the town before the dwarf could.  Also the word of them being outlaws wouldn't have reached the town just yet either, which gave them a bit of an advantage.