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Her smile faded at Talon's words. They were going to kill them? For the first time in her life while around humans, Azaela began to feel very afraid. If she proved her father right today, she'd never hear the end of it. If she survived. Her heartbeat picked up and she looked towards Ryek's crew. They seemed to look the way she felt right now too. That was certainly strange. Then when Talon spoke of people on his ship being eternally damned, she wondered what that meant. Was she damned now? What was damned? An honor perhaps?

As Talon grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the plank in front of the terrible man, she instinctively hid herself behind him. Frightened sapphire eyes peeking over his shoulder would be all that was visible of the mermaid behind Talon. She jumped when Ryek yelled out to the women on his ship. What was a wench? Azaela was beginning to feel exhausted. Having been on human legs for so long, transferring her powers, and so much new information, it wouldn't be long before her brain and body were mush and she would need to rest.

When Ryek told Talon to leave them behind unless they wanted to play, she couldn't think of anything better. She was a mermaid, she loved to play! She wondered what kinds of games humans played on a ship. But still, she was becoming increasingly tired. At Ryek's questioning of Talon's shirt, Azaela realized that the other captain was wearing something to cover himself. She hadn't even wondered about Talon needing cover, none of the mermen wore shirts, she thought it was only natural. She wondered why humans wore so much cover anyway, it seemed so un-natural.

Azaela turned her attention to Verity, blinking owlishly at her armor. She'd seen things like that on some of the sunken ships. The woman didn't seem injured and Azaela was very intrigued by her outfit. All she found herself wanting to do was rub it in all of it's glorious shininess, forgetting completely about the situation at hand as she stared at the knight.

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Gemma was standing at the edge of the ship with her arms crossed, silently watching when Ryek turned around and yelled at them. Was he serious? All of his crew were cowering on the other side of the ship and Belle wasn't even concerned about the situation, Gemma was his only back up so it seemed and he was going to yell at her? Stupid proud man, calling her a wench again. She frowned deeply. She wasn't a wannabe pirate either. She just wanted treasures, would do whatever it took to get them, and wanted a ship of her own because she belonged on the ocean. Okay, so she was a wannabe pirate, she'd give him that one.

When Belle grabbed her arm, it took everything in her to keep from grabbing her dagger and stabbing the tiny woman in the throat. She planted her feet firmly. "You do not get to tell me what to do. I am not crew on this ship and I am not prisoner, nor will I be whipped," she said angrily. Truly she was more or less of a prisoner on this ship, luckily though she hadn't been treated as one. Should someone try and come at her with a whip, she would end them quickly. She glared at Belle. She seemed like a weak woman when she wasn't waving that pistol around.

She turned her back on the woman and leaned against the side of the ship again. With Ryek's cowardly crew on the other side of the ship and his pistol wielding lover below deck, Gemma wasn't about to turn her back on the situation and let her map out of sight. She had searched his quarters more than thoroughly, if it wasn't on his person, where could it be? She didn't know the ship well enough to know of his hiding places. Damn it! she cursed in her head, what a lousy situation. At this rate she would be teaming up with Ryek just to get to the treasures, the only problem, she didn't trust the pirate, not one bit.

Gemma would wait here on deck and watch over the two ships for any funny business. Part of her thought about boarding the other ship and stealing it away. But firstly, there was no crew to steer it away, and secondly, even if there was, the thing was hellishly creepy and she didn't want to set one foot on that thing. She sighed and shook her head. In any case, if Ryek was upset with her, he could take it up with her himself. She glanced up to the stars, the sun would be rising soon.