<div style="background-color:#353535; border:1px solid black; margin:10px 10px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Mal rolled her eyes at Blake. Taking over the ship, really?<br/><br/>"We're better than this - raft," she replied scornfully, and gave the door another trying knock with her knuckles. "And whaddya mean, "swim"? We're in the middle of the oc-" The cry of a seagull interrupted her, and she stopped in the middle of her sentence. Seagulls never flew out to open sea. Admittedly, The Shaels were one giant clusterfuck of islands, and even on the longest distances, it barely took more than three days to sail from one shitty port to another. The two of them had barely been on board for a day, so they could not have had traveled very far. Mallory was so occupied with listening to the birds outside that she didn't notice the heavy footsteps approaching the door, and thus was unprepared for when the door was slammed into her face and made her stumble backwards and fall over Blake's legs.<br/><br/>"WHAT UP, SLUTS," Cor yelled as he burst into the cell, looking viciously satisfied with himself. "Rollin' around on the deck. I knew it." He jerked his thumb over his shoulder. "Yer both off the fuckin' ship. I want to see the dust clouds of yer heels five seconds ago. Leg it!"<br/><br/>Mallory scrambled to her feet as she pushed herself away from Blake, her cheeks burning with unwarranted teenage shame. "We're not <span style="font-style: italic">rolling around</span>, ew," she replied as she hastily grabbed her friend's hand, scared that Cor would think he was too slow in the uptake and literally kick them out. "And we're legging now!" The two of them left as quickly as they could, stopping for a breather on the docks. Letting go of Blake, Mal rested her hands on her knees as she bent over, wheezing. Shouts of joy could be heard from the ship as the gangway was pulled back and separated the kids from the ship permanently. Mallory let herself sink down dejectedly on a nearby innocuous barrel, watching the ship leave port almost has soon as it had gotten there.<br/><br/>The shouts of joy turned into shouts of alarm but a few moments later. Mallory's head snapped up, just in time to watch the ship break in half as a galleon decided to plow through it with little regard for the pirates on board. A wide smile spread across the girl's face. She spat at the ground and looked smugly at Blake.<br/><br/>"I knew that would happen."</div></div>