To Sink or Swim - BoR Trial Alexandra & Mad Rook
Sept 18, 2014 7:26:57 GMT
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Post by Caitlin Cockfoster on Sept 18, 2014 7:26:57 GMT
Harold un-manacled the redhead, and they boarded the ship and the crew recently back from sea (and smelling like it too) all stared in deafening silence at the new blood. Some poked at the girl, mostly to rile her up, but also because they couldn't do that to the other woman on their ship and walk away with all ten fingers afterwards. Soon as everyone was on-board and crowded on deck around the four new passengers the eerie silence got painful. There weren't any gulls crying in the sky, the waves were flat at noon tide, even the breeze fell flat in the air. Something was particularly foul in this moment and Caitlin.... the planes of Caitlins face looked harsh in the overhead sunlight. Seconds ticked by as everyone stared, measuring up the recruits, and taking their cue from the queen herself. She never looked quite like this when 'interviewing' potential brethren. That meant something.
"HOIST ANCHOR!" Caitlin shouted loud and commanding, the static crackled and the outer ring of pirates moved with practiced surety. The ship lurched, the ropes came loose from the mooring posts, and the ship glided past the pier.
"MARK DUE EAST, ALL HANDS" - everyone was moving now, following orders, performing some task like a sea of particles flowing around the immobile four front and center. It was beautiful, intimidating, breathtaking the way they moved like a well oiled machine, then she cried out;
"STAND FAST! "
Everyone stopped. All boots dropped heavy on the deck as they turned to face her and waited. Her lips split in a grin that said she knew she was powerful, and she was making a point of it.
"Congratulations you two, welcome to your trail. You wanted a ship, Morgan? You wanted to single handedly procure one, here you go, its yours. Your task is to keep us afloat and park us back in port - single handedly, without sinking, or running aground, or dying... because your job," she turned to Alexandra, "Is to make sure he can't."
That was it, no further instructions, no brief about winners and losers, pass you get this, fail you get sunk, etc. She had a headache and was in no mood to be lighthearted. The brotherhood wasn't a book club anyway, it was a band of rogues, and sometimes they had to do what wasn't right, what wasn't fair, and what wasn't easy. Welcome to the reality of it, she thought grimly.
"Hope you know how to use your sails, mate," she sneered at the prep boy from daddy's side of town.
"HOIST ANCHOR!" Caitlin shouted loud and commanding, the static crackled and the outer ring of pirates moved with practiced surety. The ship lurched, the ropes came loose from the mooring posts, and the ship glided past the pier.
"MARK DUE EAST, ALL HANDS" - everyone was moving now, following orders, performing some task like a sea of particles flowing around the immobile four front and center. It was beautiful, intimidating, breathtaking the way they moved like a well oiled machine, then she cried out;
"STAND FAST! "
Everyone stopped. All boots dropped heavy on the deck as they turned to face her and waited. Her lips split in a grin that said she knew she was powerful, and she was making a point of it.
"Congratulations you two, welcome to your trail. You wanted a ship, Morgan? You wanted to single handedly procure one, here you go, its yours. Your task is to keep us afloat and park us back in port - single handedly, without sinking, or running aground, or dying... because your job," she turned to Alexandra, "Is to make sure he can't."
That was it, no further instructions, no brief about winners and losers, pass you get this, fail you get sunk, etc. She had a headache and was in no mood to be lighthearted. The brotherhood wasn't a book club anyway, it was a band of rogues, and sometimes they had to do what wasn't right, what wasn't fair, and what wasn't easy. Welcome to the reality of it, she thought grimly.
"Hope you know how to use your sails, mate," she sneered at the prep boy from daddy's side of town.