Act 5
Dean instructed his men to take out the eyes of the
sirens that they managed to kill. When the men took out the sirens’ eyes, it
turned into bright sapphires. These are the brightest and purest sapphires that
the pirates had ever seen in their lives.
Once everything was settled, the fallen and the
dead bodies of the sirens were thrown out to sea.
Locke thanked the captain for the treasure they had
gathered from the dead sirens. “To think you sell our souls captain,” Locke
joked. “I know you wouldn’t sell the ship and us to that wicked creature.”
“Oh, but I did Locke. I do not like to owe anyone
anything. That ritual with the contract is no trick or hoax. I paid my debt to
her. By right, you and the crew’s souls and this very ship belongs to the dead
siren, Arphin. Too bad she isn’t alive to enjoy it, isn’t she?”
“Yeah, too bad,” Locke slowly walked away, being
confused.
Patrick came to the captain, with questions in his
thought. He hesitated on asking anything fearing it would upset Dean.
“Speak up,” Dean said. “Speak your mind and make it
full of heart, and if I do not understand it then the message was not meant for
me anyway.”
“What is the whole purpose of this?” Patrick
finally spoke out.
“Well, just as I said. I need to reimburse and I
had.”
“But the killing, what is the purpose of her death?
I’m not opposing that she died, because if she lived, my soul could be hers…”
“She didn’t have to die,” Dean explained. “I just
need her heart, well if I need her heart, she has to die then.”
“And why didn’t we just kill her while we were in
their nest, and why didn’t any of the sirens tried to kill me when the battle
was going? Why do you need her heart?”
“Oh, too many question,” Dean jested, chewing a
piece of meat.
“First, the reason why I brought you and some of the men to that
nest were because I needed to call them out to the surface, and the only way of
doing that is to have the stink of men. And we can’t kill sirens in their home,
it would be rude and impossible, and they are practically immortal in that nest
So, that’s why I brought them to this ship but in order to do so, I need to
tell the truth, which I know I can’t tell because that would disrupt the
balance and telling the truth is disgusting.”
“But that doesn’t answer why they didn’t attack
me,”
“Because you told them the truth or what you
thought was the truth back in the nest. When sirens hear lies, they would turn
to their basic instincts and kill, but when they hear the truth they lose
themselves, they would agree anything a man says.” Dean explained thoroughly.
“But truth is only achievable when one knows absolute nothing.”
“So that is why you had me answer for you, and why
you didn’t tell me what was going on.”
“Ah, now you finally understand.”
“But the heart,” Patrick pressed on. “What is the
purpose of her heart?”
“Just like Odysseus, even I need to go back to my
home for wherever it may be.”
End of Act 5
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