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Chapter 3: Welcome Aboard 

“Unchain me.”

Lieutenant Byun’s head shot up from where it had been nodding off as his lucky prisoner’s request drew him back to alertness.

He scoffed at the boy’s bluntness and pulled his book up from where it had been sliding down his lap.

“No.”

“Won’t you let me go to the window?” 

Now he sounded desperate.

“Not after the stunt you pulled,” Byun scolded, returning to his book but not really reading it.

Hongjoong had almost jumped overboard last week because his hands were small enough to slip out of the restraints. Not that he would’ve gotten far, considering the fact that his legs still didn’t work properly, but these new chains were much tighter, chafing his wrists until they bled and tiring him out with his attempts to escape them.

So he relaxed in his bonds and tried to lay back, resting in the rocking of the ship where it was anchored in the harbour.