The captain emerged with three glasses and a bottle of wine. "I don't drink much, but today's the exception. You'll want some while you hear all we have to tell you." He sat at his usual seat at the head of the table, began to pour, and offered a glass to me.
I shook my head and ticked my gaze to Josh again.
Josh took a glass and drank deep. "About a week after all of you left the Black, I received a message from a man named Parker Donatrough."
The captain made a growling noise at the back of his throat and tipped his full glass over his mouth.
"I'd never heard of him in my life," Josh continued. "He gave me your ship's coordinates and said I needed to come right away. And to bring explosives, enough to blow up an entire ship. No explanation. That was it. I was already on my way to come after Ellison, so I pushed my ship harder, thinking something was really wrong. When I finally got here, your ship had already been boarded by Parker himself."