<div style="background-color:#353535; border:1px solid black; margin:10px 10px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"The plan, Blake," she replied triumphantly, "is to get aboard the pirate ship. I think it'd be better if we actually tried to, y'know, shack up properly with'em before we try sneaking aboard or anything. They should be easy to find. C'mon!" Without waiting for a reply (really, he'd already said he was in, and she knew he would follow her like a puppy, possibly because she usually had food), she grabbed hold of his dirty, bony hand and ran towards the town as fast as her skinny legs could carry her.<br/><br/><div><hr style="height:2px; width:100%; border:0; color: black;background:black;"/></div><br/>"You <span style="font-style: italic">will</span> take us with you!"<br/><br/>Once again, Mallory's hand slammed down, except this time, it was on a bar desk she could only barely reach. She still had Blake in tow. The bearded, filthy man, drinking a mug of something foamy and yellow that she wasn't entirely sure was <span style="font-style: italic">actually</span> beer, looked decidedly unimpressed at the two determined, twiggy children.<br/><br/>"We can scrub the decks! We can - we can empty buckets! And - do other useful things!" Mallory never wanted to hear this pathetic tone in her own voice ever again.<br/><br/>"The boy, maybe, but women are shit on ships," the pirate growled. He was hungover and not in the mood to be pestered by adolescents. He never was, but today was an especially bad day. His neighbor, however, gave the pair a calculating look.<br/><br/>"I think we should take 'em, Rog. Or at least just the boy. Could use an extra pair of hands. Might be useful one day. In the far future."<br/><br/>Mallory bit her lip to prevent it from quivering too much. It was so unfair. It was her plan, her idea, and she wanted to get away and get rich just as much as Blake, and then they only wanted to take him! She glared at 'Rog'.<br/><br/>"I'm worth twice as much as Blake!" She said haughtily. It wasn't true in all aspects, but definitely some, and she didn't think Blake would mind her outburst.</div></div>