<div style="background-color:#353535; border:1px solid black; margin:10px 10px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The girl heaved an inner sigh of relief deep within the privacy of her own mind. She gave Blake's hand a grateful squeeze. If she wasn't going, he wasn't going, and pirates didn't kidnap, right? They only took inanimate objects of a certain value from people who didn't really need it.<br/><br/>Rog downed his beer angrily and said nothing, but his neighbor gave them a wide, golden-toothed grin. Mallory couldn't help but grin back in excitement. This was what freedom looked like - tattooed, sweaty, and with clunky, valuable teeth - and she loved it.<br/><br/><div><hr style="height:2px; width:100%; border:0; color: black;background:black;"/></div><br/>"Oh, my <span style="font-style: italic">God</span>..." Mallory was mumbling incoherently to herself as she hung over the ship's bulwark and watched the contents of her stomach drift away on the choppy waves. She had absolutely not been prepared for this. The ground under her feet usually didn't move. She risked a quick glance away from the water in an attempt to locate Blake, but had to return to her slumping as another wave of stomach acid threatened to fly out of her mouth and to freedom. Rog sneered at her as he wound up rope a bit further down the side of the ship. She waved at him in a way she hoped looked nonchalant.<br/><br/>"Why don't ye make yerself useful and learn how to tie a knot, instead of puking yer guts out?" He shouted at her. She cringed, but managed to take the few shaky steps down to Rog while holding on tightly to the rail.<br/><br/>"Did ye lose yer friend?" He asked as he tossed an end of rope to her. Mallory nodded, too afraid to open her mouth. Rog tied and untied a reef knot faster than Mallory's eyes could follow.<br/><br/>"Learn this. Yer friend's doing fine. I doubt he's fallen overboard already, although he don't look like he has the brains to stay on the right side o' the bulwark!" Rog laughed hoarsely and left Mallory to her own devices. She stared at the huge coil of rope in front of her. What on Earth had he told her to do?</div></div>