<div class="floatright">(http://imgur.com/3hgsLSS.jpg)</div>"We can risk the captain's wrath<em>after </em>he has heard us out and we have tried to gain his cooperation," Malcyn explained. "Remember that he is the man<em>Casimiro </em>chose for the job. If you trust your friend, you'll do him the courtesy to assume he hasn't lost his wits when he picked his captain," Malcyn replied, finding he was speaking to thin air. The girls had left.<br/><br/>Ah, it mattered little; the two had not been listening to a word he'd said, and between the attire of one of them, and their refusal to hear anything from the person they had pretended to need, he reached the conclusion that the two had most likely attempted to prank him, attempting to get an item of his clothing to win a bet, or some similar childish reason. It explained why they had not given the sobbing maid a single glance, servants were beneath this type of folk, and it explained why they were not worried about drawing the attention of the many wedding guests with a lack of clothes. Any sane person would have understood that walking through a party on sneaky business in only a hoop skirt dragged up with one hand was neither sneaky or diplomatic, but the girls had been deaf. Of course, if they had only wanted the shirt, their lack of concern was logical, as was their irritation when he had not complied. It was childish enough to disgust him, but he had more important things on his mind than the empty pleasures of the rich.<br/><br/>When Carmina stated her desire to stay out of this, Malcyn couldn't blame her. After the show his two guests had put on, it was an understandable decision. At least the girl had regained her composure, and that was good. In time, she'd be alright, and the grisly sight'd she'd endured would be nothing but a bad memory. He made no move to stop her,  and stood to hold the door for her. "Before you leave," he said, "could you tell me who is in charge in Casimiro's absence?"<br/><br/>Once she had told him, he followed her out of his room, and went in search of said person.