"What's your name, young lady?" Dima asked, with an adorable grandpa smile.

"I'm Adrienne Volkova, I just want to go home, please, I'm begging you" The woman said, as she wiped tears from her eyes and stared at Dima with beautiful silver eyes.

"Of course we're going to help you, did you know my daughter's name was Adrienne too?" Dima said, helping the girl to her feet.

"Layers it is destiny that brought you on board, so that we could rescue you from the ocean"

"Now young Adrienne, let me take you to see the captain of the ship to discuss the details" Dima said, as she handed the girl over to a slightly stunned Ricardo.

"Young handsome man, take the lady to the cabins, give her some warm clothes and then send her to the captain" Dima ordered, giving Ricardo two winks.

"Yes, of course, follow me beautiful lady" Ricardo said with a noble label that he never brought out on this ship, while thinking 'My God!, this old Dima, is the father I never had, I even introduce myself to someone, something that not even my brother bothered"

"Thank you, for the help..." Adrienne said a little nervously, accepting Ricardo's hand with a shy smile.

The rest of the sailors, seeing Ricardo's label, almost dropped their jaws to the ground.

Ricardo and Adrienne happily prepared to walk towards the entrance of the cabins.

It was then that a shout came from the stairs below:

"I bring the Water for the princess, kind old man!!"

*sh*

Ricardo felt something hot splash onto his face, staining the side of his face, somewhat dazed by the sudden spitting.

He put his hands on his face and wiped it slowly, as if trying not to forget it, his eyes red with offense to his noble status.

But seeing his hands, he knew he was wrong, they hadn't spit on his face, as his hands were completely red, stained with thick sticky blood. Stunned, Ricardo returned to see the source of the blood, but he did not meet the shy Adrienne, but the nothingness itself...

Yes, the 'nothing', because the girl's head had disappeared as if by magic and on her neck there was only a constant source of blood dripping, staining all her clothes.

Adrienne's body fell lifeless, while Ricardo stood somewhat dazed on the deck, still holding her hand, not understanding what the hell had happened to his beautiful lady.

It was then that Ron ran out of the cabins and grabbed a head rolling on the floor and put it in an iron box with a glass on one side.

Dima, meanwhile, approached the woman's corpse and with a swipe tore off her shirt, leaving her completely naked again, with the shirt in her hand, she began to clean a rusty knife full of blood.

Ricardo, meanwhile, held the hand of the girl's naked corpse, as if he wanted Adrienne to never touch the ground, for a long time, in silence, without understanding why...