"Stede?" Number 6 snorts. "That man does like to hear himself speak enough. But he's as likely to annoy as to flatter." Number 6 doesn't have great opinions about that so-called captain. What is it about having that title here...?

"I agree. I do not at all like being at the mercy of his whims. But, we must endure. To do anything else would be giving him victory. I won't do that."