Meeting Adjourned

"When ...when did you have time to draw these?"
"I had plenty of time after working the kitchens in between meals. Most of them were committed to memory so the details weren't that hard to depict."
"Why are you giving my sisters and I pictures of ourselves?"
Draven scratches the back of his head as he watches her take a seat at the table, still absorbed in the pictures that she had in front of her. "I...I have some things I have to do on the main land. It could take up to a year before I am done, if I survive the experience that is. I ...wanted to give you something to remember me by since I know I'll never forget any of you."
With his confession she looks up sharply at him, her eyes as flat as stone as she gazes in his eyes. "You haven't completed your contract yet. You still have six months on board this ship before you can be allowed to leave."
"I never signed any contract when I boarded Captain."
The Captain stands up and walks over to the desk that sits against the side wall. Opening the roll-top desk she pulls out a large bundle of papers. Thumbing through them she withdraws one and nods softly before coming back to the table and handing the papers to him. He can see the title "Agreement of Service" and as he reads he can see that his handwriting is along the margins of the parchment. On the last page his signature is written in large letters compared to the Captains seal. "I … I didn't sign this paper. I know I would have remembered signing a document to a year of service."
"You didn't have to sign, by boarding this ship and agreeing to serve under a female Captain your word signed that document instead of your hand. It's part of the spell work on this ship Draven. It's also how my sisters and I knew your full name when you've only introduced yourself to others as 'Draven'."
"I need to go on land Captain! I swore another oath to ..." He sighs roughly and looks at her with desperation in his expression. "I have to go back. I have to... I'll do whatever you deem as a worthwhile punishment so long as you let me go back on land and complete this other oath that I have made."
The Captain looks at him and then leans back and nods. "Very well. We land in one week. I will have the terms of your release presented to you when we dock." She sits up and looks at him as she continues, "You will NOT leave the ship until I present you with your new documentation. Nor will you try to sneak away. The spells on this ship will do you grave harm should you try to disobey me in this matter Draven. Do you understand?"
Draven nods and rises to his feet as the Captain takes the contract and puts it back in her desk. He walks back to his room and looks through the book, choosing a blank page he begins drawing a new picture. The image of the Captain issuing her orders to him is soon placed on the paper, only it isn't a harsh picture, but instead one that shows a side of the Captain that Draven had never seen before. He had seen fear in her eyes when she was giving her orders to him, a type of fear that had him confused as she had never shown any type of fear in the six months since he had first boarded the ship