Chapter SixFor a moment Azalea felt as if her brain was filled with wool and she could not think.
She only knew that her breath seemed still to be knocked out of her as it had been when she was thrown down on the sacking.
Then she realised that Kai Yin was sobbing uncontrollably, and she knew she must somehow comfort her.
“Perhaps Mr. Chang is safe,” she said. “They may not have killed him, but only taken him prisoner.”
“If prisoner, I see on deck,” Kai Yin replied and continued to cry against Azalea’s shoulder.
“I thought the pirates were finished,” Azalea said after a minute, almost as if she spoke to herself.
“Always pirates,” Kai Yin muttered.
Azalea tried to remember what she had read about pirates in the book on Hong Kong she had found in the Library on the Orissa.
It was a h
