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Solveig turned her back to the girls. She needed to calm down after their wrestling with Hadine. Tapani moved closer. 

Doucette put her forehead to Hadines and closed her eyes. "Stay calm; I know what to do." She whispered. Hadine was in silence. Enemies gave her a bad beating, and she got a few more bruises from mercenaries when they cuffed her to the ladder after she tried to fight them. However, Hadine's mission was to keep princesses safe, and she had promised to get them out of trouble. The problem was that she took her resistance to the level that she endangered their safety. 

"Please stop fighting," Doucette said. "Do that until I tell otherwise." She was sure she could influence the people who were holding them. 

"Ok," Hadine answered. She was tired and in pain. She was cuffed to the ladder in a way she was not able to sit down, and her legs were getting tired. At least Maja and the Dulcinea were in the cabinet. It was a stinky cabinet, but mercenaries were holding them well and not threatening their safety. It was true that there was no gun pointing at one of them all the time. Mercenaries had guns, but they used airguns loaded with darts that most likely had some tranquilizer medicine. 

"Dulcinea is in shock, and Maja keeps crying," Doucette said shortly. She thought about what happened after HAdine made her fight. From sisters, Dulcinea was softer than her renegade sister. As a result, she was a good target to Storhem soldiers when they forced Doucette to stop her resistance. Doucette was worried about her. She would be more worried later when she had more time to think about their future. "But they will be fine," Doucette ended. 

Then Tapani put his hand on her shoulder and pulled her further from Hadine. 

"She made big trouble for us," Tapani said, "I hope your speech helps." 

"Beating would be better than speech," Solveig said to herself, but Doucette listened to her words. 

Tapani didn't believe Doucette's speech would keep her friend calm. She had understood their situation from the beginning, and she did what she was trained to do: She tried to load the enemy's resources and make their progress slower. She was a soldier, and it was good that everybody understood that. Not only Hadine but also Doucette had military training. They needed to be careful with this cargo. Many people had followed the reality show that was following her military service. Tapani knew that she was in the special forces at the border, and she performed better than many boys. Naturally, some parts of the show could be staged but what he saw by himself looked quite real. 

"Back to the cabinet," Tapani said to Doucette and pulled her arm. Doucette was surprised because he had been treating her very gently this far. 

Tuomo appeared on the deck. "Please, your Highness, sit down." He stopped them and directed Doucette to sit on the weapons container.