With katrina who immediately recognised the man stood to her captions side and said he must speak the truth as to why he wanted to join.
Under the piecing be eyes of maxwell, so calm but focused he felt like if he did lie, those eyes allow would drown him. So he broke for the first time in his life, on his knees he explained how his life was, that he had given up hope of redemption. Blood on his hands would stay there forever. But that girl. She had shown him a kindness no one had ever done and seeing her today, with like minded people, watched them laugh and joke and get angry. He wanted that.
Maxwell arose "we don't need a cook, we would like one tho" she knelt in front of him and put her hands on his shoulders, forcing him to look at her "what I need is a loyal cook. What we" she motioned to everyone around her before looking back at him "around you can't get more loyal then family. If you enter this crew. You become one of our own, not just A cook. OUR cook, the only one we rely on from here on out. Can you handle that?"
And with that for the first time in his life, he cried.
For the sadness, confusion, deformed. They didn't care, they would take it all and give the one thing you cannot force from people.
Love

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