“I’m used to noise.” Elissa said with a small smile. “In fact noise makes it feel more like my ship. I don’t like silence.” Elissa found solace in noise, it reminded her of the fun they’d had on her ship and the markets that she visited. Noise never bothered her, bedlam had been noisy, people always crying or screaming. Silence was what bothered her. Her home had always been quiet after her mother had died and she hated the silence. 

Elissa smiled when he said his back was fine. Her heart fluttered when he smiled at her. His smile was a reward all its own.  “Do you dance?” She asked Joseph with a mischievous grin. “Too bad no one has a violin, I love how they sound. Father wanted me to learn…I used it for target practice when I was learning how to shoot a pistol.” She laughed. “I defied him every chance I could and my best friend helped me.” She wasn’t going to mention that he was her friend, not in front of the crew. She didn’t want to upset him and she didn’t know how they would feel knowing that she had information about their captain that he didn’t even know.