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The blue Zephyr spores fascinate Tress, particularly because they could kill her. She dismisses Huck so he won't be in danger, and thinks of how facing these hazards and drudgery will help her help Charlie. She notices the large barrel has a false bottom (from her weeks figuring a way to be smuggled off the Rock.) Inside she finds a hidden cannonball. She realizes this is how Laggart hid the "defective" cannonball that sank [[Oot's Dream]], and is chilled to realize he hid this from the crew.
Ann arrives, and Tress notes how she is besotted with the cannon, and wonders if she's in cahoots with Laggart. Ann explains that in addition to ship's carpenter, she's assistant cannon master. Tress comments the crew seems to be adjusting well to being pirates. Ann tells how Crow said with the war coming, they'd all wind up fighting for the king. Or they could strike out on their own doing an "noble and important duty" of stealing from the rich and selling to the poor. Ann expresses regret over becoming deadrunners on their first outing. Tress is not familiar with this term, so Ann explains there's regular pirates who chase for ransom, which is punishable by imprisonment but not hanging. But deadrunners who are guilty of murder are criminals among criminals. If you become a deadrunner, you're bound to that ship and Captain.
Tress believes that Ann was not part of Laggart's plot. However, the Captain probably was because she left that survivor in the lifeboat to spread the word of their battle. Absorbed in thought, Tress accidentally scratches her nose. "That was when Tress's face exploded."
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