<span style="color: darkred">"Ye have ta be gettin off me ship, Tayna." </span>The weathered One-Eyed Jaque spoke quietly to the black haired beauty while the two ate dinner quietly.   Ruby stopped in mid-bite of her fish,<span style="color: darkred">"Capt'n?"</span>Her one good eyebrow suddenly popped up, and the confused look glazed in her hazel eye, it would be Jaque to speak next.<br/><br/><span style="color: darkred"> "The sails girl.  Ye almost made us run a'ground ya did, with that stunt.  You can lay to it there be a reason that ya did it, but that be the last time ye be touchin the girls sails</span>."<br/><br/>Ruby sat quietly for a moment, then calmly chewed the rest of her seemingly last dinner.   She knew why she cut the sails free, but damn if she would say a word about it.  She could see it in his blue eye, nothing could save her fate.  The only question at this point was, would she live.<br/><br/><span style="color: darkred">"Yer goin over after this meeting, Tayna.  Ol'Jaque has over a'hunderd souls, and ya not have but a scant few that actually like ya, besides me o'course.  Ye be reckless girl.  Reckless I say.  Ye not follow orders when given even by meself most o'the time.  Ya got to go.  Follow the sun."</span><br/><br/>Ruby winked once, with a half smile and threw her dinner knife a the old pirate, missing her target by less than an inch.  Jaque's eyes flashed for a moment, giving the same smile and leaped over the table tackling Ruby.  The two rolled on the floor of the captain's quarters, causing the tables, chairs and dinnerware to fly everywhere.  Moments later, the night watchers rushed in and pulled the girl from the man, the two visibly bloody.<br/><br/><span style="color: darkred">"Orders, Capt'n?" </span>One of the guards boomed.<br/><span style="color: darkred">"Aye, its the plank for ya Ruby One-eye!  Ta be killin ya, would be a waste of me time, girl.  Let the sharks have at ya."</span>The captain tied her dagger to her waist.<span style="color: darkred"> "I not be want'in anything to be remeber'n ya with."</span><br/><br/>Ruby bleeding from her bottom lip, looked back to her mentor as she was led to the first plank, and noted the sun setting before her.  She smiled once, and tossed herself into the water head first in a loud splash....<br/><br/>Ruby awoke from her half drunk sleep with a jump, but qucikly recovered to see her cocoa haired friend laying on her back, in a very compromising position to Ruby, her fingers wiggling hello.  Her hand instantly felt for her namesake dagger and finding it still by her hip, cracked a small yet sensual smile, then waved both her hands to Taszu.<br/><br/><span style="color: darkred">"Ye have five to my ten.  Ruby wins."  </span>The weathered pirate flips from her sleeping position, landing her butt on Taszu's waist, and her knees pressed against the wooden planks, straddling the younger girl.  Ruby's black and white streaked hair blowing forward covering part of her face, she stares down at her partial prisioner.<br/><br/><span style="color: darkred">"It's bad luck waking a person before we ship off, ya devil..."</span>Her eyepatch glistens a moment while Ruby utters the final part of her speech,<span style="color: darkred">"...bad luck for ye who did the waking, lady.  Ye'll not deny that me won, so won't ya be tellin me my prize girl? Ruby has of late wanted a new bandana..."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>