28 Chapter 28 (Comitatu)

An enormous amount of people were aboard, finding a lost person or lost people would be a tough job, one would need help as big as a sniffing bloodhound to complete such a task easily.

It was the state Severus was in, a state of almost utter disarray, "Should look for them, or leave em all and find my way back to Venice" Severus thought, indecisive thoughts clouded his mind, his eyes kept wandering around with hope he would spot 'em by accident.

Severus was lost in midst of a crowd, digressing as time went by, after a while in the crowd, he began to feel he had roamed about the ship for a good long while and it can be said that Chiara and the rest had left the ship, Severus went ahead, wriggling his way through the midst of the crowd.

For quite a good amount of while, he wriggled his way out.

Severus came out of the Crowd, the way down the ship wasn't too far from him,  while he was taking steps down the ship on huge wooden stairs than ran from the ship down to the ground, "Hey Halt Right there!" a deep voice before him, commanded, it came with huge authority, one that would scare the spine out of peasant, but wouldn't for a royalty.

Severus looked before him, he found a crew of Governor Masimilano's soldiers at the end of the stairs,

He halted immediately.

"Come down Vir bellica,  you have wandered for long, time to go back to your cage," said Alberto Ferrari the leader of the Crew.

"As though am a Grey Hound, right?" He muttered, while his mien changed, his face turned scary.

"I didn't quite get what you said."

Severus turned his back at Alberto Ferrari and his men, and pranced into the ship, Severus act before Alberto sent pounds of anger through veins,

"After him!" He ordered his servile Men.

Severus walked back into the ship, he had known already that Alberto Ferrari's men were fast approaching behind him.

Severus roared, "Venimus Comitatu!" His message reached many, for his roar came from the depths of his throat.

"Currere Quisque!" One amongst the crowd roared as Alberto's men emerged.

A wild tussle erupted immediately, the crowd went wild, everyone began struggling to get off the ship,

While Severus went deeper into the ship to mix up with the crowd.

The ship was an illegal wrestling arena, but Alberto and his men weren't interested in that at the moment, catching Severus and his fellow escapees preceded every other task they had.

Severus wandered to the back of the cabin, there he found Chiara and the rest hiding behind barrels of vinegar and ale.

"You all wandered off, and I was searching tirelessly for you all."

Chiara raised her head above the barrel she hid behind,

"We saw one of Alberto's men spying inside the ship," Chiara said with a lot of tones.

"Well there are all in the ship and as am speaking to you now, Everyone is leaving the ship.

We have to leave now when the crowd is still enormous, it would be hard to spot us." Severus informed them

Everyone crept away from the barrel they hid behind and went with Severus to mix up with the crowd.

Meanwhile, Alberto and his men went down to the cabin, searching every room in there uncovering harlots and their patronizers, most people in the cabin had to leave in shame with only beddings clothing their nakedness.

Alberto Ferrari and his men held Fabrizio back in the Ship cabin, to interrogate him, they sat him down before a table, throwing questions at him.

"you said you never saw the Governor's prisoner, but I saw one of 'em going into your ship," Alberto said and slammed his hands on the plain wooden table before him.

"Maybe he came with the crowd, I never hid anyone In my ship." Fabrizio denied Alberto's incoming accusations of harbouring a criminal, a crime punishable by Labour in the grain fields near the monastery of Assisi.

Where he would be forced to work alongside widows and maidens, it is considered a shame in Assisi for a man to be doing feminine work.

Most men end up being called ridiculous monickers such as "Infirmus" meaning a Small man, or weak man.

"Your mind isn't clean, and your lips tell lies." Alberto assumed, given that Fabrizio runs an illegal wrestling arena he should be able to tell lies and hide criminals.

"Scour the ship and its peripheries, they must be here somewhere," Alberto ordered his men.

They all marched out of the ship cabin, dispersed themselves, and searched the whole ship, every corner, every crevice, was searched.