"Oh, is this your map?" Handel asked, lowering it from his face. Upon closer inspection he recognized Lucky Luck, a small-time troublemaker who had gotten himself a decent bounty. He suddenly realized that he was standing between a rock and a hard place, with the bounty hunter Eva behind him, and the bounty Lucky in front. Then a familiar voice called him from behind, so Handel turned around and saw Ricden. Smiling gently with his eyes closed and sweating profusely, Handel slowly lifted the map back up in an awkward gesture, in an awkward moment, between him and Ricden, covering his own face.

[i]"If I can't see him, he can't see me!"[/i] Handel thought to himself in a moment of cathartic bliss. He lowered the map. "Second mate Ricden!" Handel replied casually and in a friendly manner, raising his other hand to wave, "Well, I guess I can't call you second mate anymore since you're a captain n---"

Handel suddenly ducked down mid-sentence, reached for the dolly carrying his massive trunk and bass and, pulling it along behind him, immediately began belting for the merchant ship as if his life depended on it because it did. He considered the possibility that as a bounty hunter, Eva was in league with Ricden and had only been playing dumb to let Ricden arrive. Handel ran and thought these things, forgetting that he was still clutching the map in his hand.