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"You saw nothing."

It's not a question, it's a statement. A pre-emptive one at that. If only because she can't count on the stranger to say not mention that she had turned from a little black cat to a fully grown woman in what she had assumed was an empty alleyway. Her own fault for not looking, properly, she supposed.

Not that she'd admit that out loud.

"I'm so sorry, I've never seen you around. Are you a pirate?"

"I have been too soft on you... If you've made it this far, all that worry has been for nothing," she said, frowning. She used to feel very protective over Hiru --- she viewed him as a child gone astray in life. He just seemed so young to be Wanted, to be putting himself in danger the way he did with his chosen, ah, 'lifestyle.'

She could see she had been condescending in the past. Here was a man grown, who has willfully decided to be a criminal. It was still the wrong decision, she would forever maintain, but he was not misguided by youth.

Bay had been alerted about a pirate ship that had anchored on the island. With how many pirates were taking the opportunity to pillage her father’s former territories, Bay had grown wary of allowing anyone onto the few territories she was attempting to preserve and protect.