Chapter 246: Lying

      Mason and Ilona's cave was not large enough for all the pirates, so they made up a camp in the jungle in front of it. Mason showed them where they could find the crabs and helped them start a fire that wouldn't attract attention. Once they had eaten some and settled in with a few standing guard while the others slept, Mason returned to his cave.

      He went to Anja's bags and searched through them, looking for signs. He saw nothing that belonged to Ilona in the bags and nothing in the cave that had not already been there. It was this that worried him. What if they were wrong? What if Anja and the others had returned, but Ilona wasn't with them? What if Pierce Vane actually hadn't let her leave alive?