Lu sighed just as he took a quick breather from scrub duty. He was tasked by the Captain to scrub the ship's cannons until they sparkled, only because he was caught slacking in the ship's storage hold. Not that he minded cleaning his guns or anything, Lu just figured it would take him forever having to shine all of the ship's cannons. He was just about to sneak off again for a quick break when he heard a familiar thud in the<span style="font-style: italic">Steel Maiden's</span>wooden deck. Nobody could mistake the sound made by those strides, they were filled with authority, and a certain air of pressure as you hear it drawing closer to you. It was the captain's footsteps.<br/><br/>Immediately resuming scrub duty, Lu barely managed to avoid additional work when their captain suddenly came into view. He briefly stopped to salute the man and immediately returned to work. It would seem the captain wanted to talk to the ship's Weapons Master. It had only been a year since he was transfered to the Steel Maiden and Lu was still in the process of fitting in, given his demeanor which more often than not, got him in trouble. Right now, the<span style="font-style: italic">Steel Maiden</span>had been dispatched by Acirema high command to look for the Lady Adamo Skies. Information was cascaded down to the soldiers of the ship in a 'need to know' basis and all that Lu could figure was that they were after a pirate ship.<br/><br/>He heard the Weapons Master's brief report about their current supply shortage which made him think about their ship's cannons. Thinking back to yesterday when he last read the Gunnery Manifest, Lu remembered that they were also short on cannon balls after several skirmishes every now and then.<br/><br/>"Captain, Mr. Leadson sir, we're also running low on cannon balls. We'd best restock those too."