"Tex...as..."
In the darkness, a hand reached into the faint candlelight and lightly touched one of the names written in a line on the parchment on the table.
"Te-xas... Ce-li-ni...na..."
It paused. Its voice was indistinct as it muttered the name again, this time a little more completely.
"You just stood there and watched them crush my head. You're a traitor too!"
A harpoon plunged down in an instant, piercing the parchment and the wooden table beneath it. The candle, already close to guttering, toppled to the floor and went out completely. Its dim yellow light died in the night.
Then, a pair of eyes.
A pair of deep blue eyes.
"Drag them all into the water!"
