Jack watched with a fond smile as the crew all chatted around the room for some wholesome fun. Of course, for this crew, wholesome fun meant watching the Crystal alligator and Goldilocks try to convert the same piece of furniture into their respective elements, all the while gambling on it. The bets were things along the lines of being dangled overboard the ship by Longbeard's beard, being used as shark bait in the case of a particular hamster, or being on Goldilocks duty.
Jack had seen such scenes countless times already, but it just felt different now. Though they were all idiots, of that there was no doubt, they weren't actually dumb. Each and everyone of them understood that Jack had been warning them that what lay ahead was even more dangerous than anything they had experienced so far. Not only did none of them leave, they confirmed their place in the crew with a binding ritual of sorts.
