It took nearly two hours in which Yafeu could only hear and look on in horror at how Samuel learned how to pleasure captain Nash. Now Samuel was deep asleep on the ground next to the bed, while captain Nash took some time before standing back up and moved over to the still tied down Yafeu. The captain removed the cloth from his face and took out the second piece from his mouth.
"You are allowed to speak again, boy. I hope you learned your lesson as well." Captain Nash said. Yafeu looked up with tears in his eyes. He didnīt know that the captain had changed anything about him, that would only know the person to have contact to the book when the changes were applied. So to Yafeu that was his name since birth twelve years ago. To him it was captain Nash who had gagged him before, Nash replacing Samuel as the old captain in his memories. Other than that his memories hadnīt been changed.
"Please, I only want to go home again, I need my book back." Yafeu said in his young voice.
"As if I would give something that powerful back to a simple child. And I have other plans for you, Yafeu. You have seen Samuel's new task next to normal cabin boy tasks. But I think I will let you both have the honor to be of use to me."
Yafeu cried even harder now. He didnīt wanted this when he choose this time. All got wrong and now he was helpless.
"Let me ask you, what for skills do you have of use for me and the crew?" the captain asked.
"I know how to read and write, can cook a bit and clean, but please just send me home, you can keep the book." Yafeu answered.
Nash only got his quill and ink out again after he flipped some pages in the book. He crossed out something and wrote another thing or two down. "I already said I wonīt send you home. But can you repeat your skills? It hink there was something amiss?"
Yafeu looked a bit confused but answered again: "I can cook and clean and knew how to pleasure other people. I just donīt like to do that, captain."
"So you never learned how two read or write in your home?" the captain asked.
"No, that's something I never learned before. Why?"
"Oh, nothing, I just wanted to know. But what would this book help you if you canīt read it?" the captain asked smiling.
"I just know I need it to get home, sir. Please" Yafeu answered and plead to the man. But the captain just looked through the page again and crossed out some part before editing them a bit.
"Then where do you want to go home to, Yafeu? I will send you." he replied grinning.
Yafeu now looked confused. "I have been on this ships crew for a couple of years already, sir. Why would I want to be somewhere else? This ship is my home and you and the crew are my family, sir." He seemed a bit more relaxed now after the captain had removed the bindings.
"Oh, I just thought you wanted to go home. Iīm pleased to know you see us as family, Yafeu. Now after you have been punished for trying to steal from me, how about you so your chores with me, boy?"
"Yes sir." was all Yafeu answered. Thanks to Nash's editing, Yafeu had no recollection about his past as Jeff and wasnīt as refusing to pleasure him anymore. And even if he remembered something, he would be unable to use the book without being able to read in it. To him it belonged to the captain now.