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like we've hit reality!"<br />

Sailors scramble along the deck, dropping ropes so that they might shimmy<br />

<strong>do</strong>wn. They are draped in blue and gray, sliding <strong>do</strong>wn gracefully like a <strong>do</strong>zen<br />

spiders. Their leather shoes pad along the ground s<strong>of</strong>tly.<br />

"Jeanette!" Shara Six-Blades snarls, "Damn you, girl! What trouble have you<br />

brought upon me now?!"<br />

With that a young woman slides <strong>do</strong>wn one <strong>of</strong> the ropes, her navy-blue coat<br />

fluttering <strong>be</strong>hind her. Those peach-colored hands look much <strong>to</strong>o s<strong>of</strong>t <strong>to</strong> <strong>be</strong><br />

those <strong>of</strong> a pirate's, and the lace cuffs at her wrists look <strong>to</strong>o prim and neat.<br />

The hat she wears holds three feathers, blue, green, and red, obscuring her<br />

face.<br />

She swings her head back, looking up with a mad, pearly grin. The woman is<br />

pretty, with a pointed freckled nose and a heart-shaped face framed with<br />

light brown curls. Her face would <strong>be</strong> perfectly girlish if it wasn't for the<br />

blue-white eyepatch covering the left side <strong>of</strong> her face.<br />

"These days the name's Jeanette Dovelle Four-Winds, Shara Six-Blades," she<br />

laughs, "I added the last part so that I might <strong>be</strong>at you in names, at least."<br />

Shara growls, "There is only one thing keeping me from killing you and your<br />

pirates. You'd <strong>be</strong>st convince me there's more than that."<br />

Jeanette smiles, "How about we call our debt even then?"<br />

"Not good enough."<br />

"Well I added <strong>to</strong> your bar. You can keep the ship... build around it and add<br />

those three decks. It'd <strong>do</strong>uble your space and add a magnificent feature,<br />

wouldn't you say?"<br />

Shara sc<strong>of</strong>fs, "A vessel protruding from the outer wall <strong>of</strong> my bar?<br />

Preposterous."<br />

"You might <strong>be</strong> surprised. Besides, by the look <strong>of</strong> it <strong>not</strong> a single one <strong>of</strong> your<br />

patrons was killed. Well, except for this one at least," she gives the body a<br />

swift kick.<br />

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