Living in the dark, damp cell was naturally far from comfortable. After only a few days, Cindy's complexion had become extremely haggard.
Not only was he eating and sleeping poorly, but his clansmen would also periodically take him out for questioning about this and that.
Luckily, he was prepared. He managed to bluff his way through all of it with a pre-written script.
The ship had been attacked by a leviathan hundreds of meters long. Most of the crew died, and the others who were injured also perished because the ship's doctor was dead.
When asked where the bodies were, Cindy said it was the Captain's dying order to perform a sea burial, to prevent decay from threatening the other survivors.
Although they expressed nothing, Charles, who was very experienced in these matters, immediately deduced that they couldn't see through Cindy's lies.
