Talk:Escape, part 4/@comment-142.244.5.132-20200710074246/@comment-50.105.96.80-20200731044817

It's not just that; remember, this chapter takes place right after The Doom/Bargain.

While Captain Witterel is down in the Lazarette trying to get the mermaids to call off the kraken and killing two of them, his wife Abagail gets crushed by rigging and dies. He had to have come up before the five that tried escaping in the lifeboat happened and learned that he just lost his wife. While he's in the midst of trying to process the love of his life gone forever, Volkov attacks the five trying to escape and kills Moss. I mean, to me, when Witterel screams at Volkov, "Let them go!" after he stabbed Moss, it sounds like it's full of grief and desperation like he's begging him to stop.

Not only is he probably hurting and blaming himself for all the deaths on his ship, his wife died without him being able to protect her, he witnessed two people die in front of his eyes, and he's yet to learn as he leans against that railing that three other people below deck are now dead.