One of the girls, the captain's girlfriend, started talking to Clad to know more about him. Clad didn't know her name, but she seemed slightly odd compared to the captain, who was the contrary of his menacing appearance.
"Hey, Clad, Was it? How are you doing?" The woman says to Clad, she passes her arm around him, hugging him tightly.
"I'm fine," Clad says he removes her arms from his shoulder, which she doesn't seem to take very well, but doesn't make a scene about it.
"Say, do you mind sharing info about yourself? I want to know you better!" She says with a kind smile on her face as she gives him a drink. The drink was cherry red in color.
"Fruit juice?" Clad asks, raising his eyebrow.
"What? I can't give a kid alcohol," She replies.
As Clad starts talking about his childhood with his siblings, the woman throws something in his drink without him noticing it.
As he continued to talk, he took a sip of his juice and suddenly felt fatigued as he looked at the woman. As he was going to ask her what was inside the drink. He saw her face, her eyes looking at him as if he were prey, her mouth smiling, but something about the smile wasn't a welcoming one.
He tried to get but his body didn't listen to him, his breath became heavy, and his face red.
"Are you alright!? You seem sick, let me bring you to my tent since it's far from all this noise." She says as she tries to hide her excitement while walking him to her tent.
Cody, noticing this from afar, was about to get up from the wooden log he was sitting on with his girlfriend and get himself out of her grasp, but his girlfriend stopped him with a sad look on her face.
"I know, Cody, but we can't risk this. Last time we intervened in something like this we almost died. If it wasn't for Veressa, we would have been dead!" She says as she fears what the captain would do to both of them.
Cody gets angry and slams the wooden log, making a hole in the process. In the tent, the woman tries to get her way with a weakened Clad, notices that he has a pink flower on his head, and takes a good look at him before saying.
"This doesn't fit a boy; boys should be more manlier," as she rips the flower off Clad's head, leading to him feeling immense pain in his head as blood goes down his head and tears go down his face, as he turns around in a fetal position, he notices on his left a small knife.
With fear and panic, his pink eyes whiten, and with unreactable speed, he stabs her in the neck with the knife that lay inside the tent. Her body falls on him, her voice gurgling as her blood comes out of her mouth and neck, and her red blood spills all over him. As he stood under the woman's bleeding corpse, motionless, processing what had just happened.
Cody, not capable of waiting any longer, gets up and shrugs off his girlfriend's arm, and goes up to see what is happening inside, only to see that the woman's dead body is over Clad, who is covered in blood.
Cody, shocked by what he is seeing, lets out a stressful laugh.
"You gotta be shitting me."