Valspan, for all the drama about wounded crew members, including Sin herself, and near death experiences, was positively glowing. Not literally of course, and since the woody creature was rather quiet(and didn't have a face), most wouldn't even know his mood. That's not to say the bloated tree wouldn't make any sound. Quite the contrary actually. Valpsan was actually a near constant series of desperate moans, though none of them were his own.<br/><br/>Now that danger had passed and Valspan was happily in possession of three, THREE entire meals, he'd gotten to work analyzing their every flavour. To everyone else, this just looked like Valspan standing still with a few of his vines pressed into his own top, but for his occupants, it was a sticky, vine filled, tightly confined torture. Not to say they would completely hate the experience, in fact, Spectra and Barusa would probably love to climb into the tree and be treated as his meal, but one was a little too powerful for the tree to trust and the other was so drenched  in her energies Valspan wasn't sure if she'd be poisonous at this point. Plus Barusa was Hanaryuu and they were tasteless and indigestible to the Goada.<br/><br/>When Sin didn't have something for him to do, he was probing his trio of captured ladies every orifice, not just with his vines but also with the small delicate little feeler-like tongues inside his mouth, which could press into much tighter places than his vines could. The moaning, which was muffled when his mouth was closed, was from when his vines pressed into his prisoners to extract some interesting internal flavours. Valspan also had a near constant air of sickly sweet aroma about him, no matter how sharp the wind of the sea became on the deck, standing near the tree would smell like the inside of a candy store. When not at work, he kept to himself to keep from annoying the others with his drawn out enjoyment of his meal, which, to the others surprise, was VERY drawn out. He didn't sleep, and if anyone asked it would be at least a few weeks before he let any of them die from his attentions. He would patiently explain that he was in fact making sure to properly feed them and keep their heads above the sap so they didn't drown in it. Weakened and sedated as they were, they couldn't even drown themselves on purpose to escape this strangely sweet hell. It also wouldn't matter if they did at this point, his sticky sap addictive to the point that they'd die from withdrawal symptoms if they didn't return to him in a few days.  They could be weaned off, if he really needed to let them go, but he had no plans of doing so. He'd been promised this 'payday' for a while and there was no good reason to take it from him.<br/><br/>Valspan was a god-send to the scant crew for operating the massive ship. His one weakness, being slow, wasn't as prevalent when he could reach most of the pulleys and ropes on deck from a central location. The problem with him actually became that he was too heavy to properly climb up into the rigging, so he had to stay planted on the deck or ropes would snap and the masts would probably crack from his heavy load. It probably wouldn't be as pronounced a problem if he would allow his three passengers a break, but he refused adamantly. But! In compensation, he could pull any rope as hard as ten men, actually all the ropes, at the same time. It was up to the drones to do any delicate rope slinging, but Valspan was the majority of the heavy lifting. He was also tireless, and he seemed to know his way around knots, though Sin would have to show him some of the more specific knots to sailing. He was a wickedly fast learner though, and only needed a single round of instruction before he could 'hop to' and perform whatever command she wished. He was also genuinely cooperative, being fed, and did whatever the captain asked, except give up his meals, if she was silly enough to inquire about the live crew members inside him.<br/><br/>(Tl;dr: Valspan is fed. His meals are still very much alive. He's operating the ship like the ropes themselves. He's content and happy. BUT NO TAKES BACKSIES)