<span style="color: Green">"Tanya, please stay with me the rest of night."</span>Jasmine begged lightly in her soft crystalline voice, and looking at Ruby with her ocean blue eyes and long auburn hair barely covering her heightened and deep brown nipples. The pirate finished buttoning the last on her tight and soft black leather pants, before speaking.<br/><span style="color: DarkRed">"Ye knew that I be leav'in early this even'in darlin.  Jasmine, our time be short now, and I would not like ta be parting ways sad. Wind and sail willing, I will return to ye. Fair dreams attend thee, my Jasmine." </span><br/>Adjusting her eyepatch to allow its ruby to sparkle, Tanya kissed her lover a final time, slid on her tight matching shirt and walked out of the inn, her boots and bag in tow.<br/><br/><span style="color: DarkRed"> "Greetings to ya, Arthur! Time be short, ta be sure, Ruby needs ya work the name Jasmine on the list, mate."</span>The salty haired artist stood with his hands on his hips smiling.<span style="color: Green"> "Its good to see you as well One-eye. Another broken heart is it child, and a rush job as well?"</span>Ruby stood for a second her smile stretched tight, then reached into her coin purse, tossing a small emerald to him.<span style="color: DarkRed">"Arrgh, it is. That should keep her happy, get ta scrawlin."</span>It took a little over an hour to complete her new addition in a bright red ink like all the others. The ink and wound being new, Ruby stripped off her shirt in favor of shoulder-less top that was held in place by her breasts alone. She pulled on her boots, hugged her friend and darted back into the night bent on her mission to board the Lion's Bastard, undetected.<br/><br/>The wager was a typical silly thing the woman did just for fun.  It was the captain that tossed it out.<span style="color: Blue"> "Can ya sneak past Amalia?  If ya can I have a huge bottle of my finest rum and a finer ruby for ye. If ye get caught, ya be swabbing her decks, One-eye." </span>The two things Ruby loved beyond her dagger was rum and her gemstone. She quickly nodded her head, causing her black hair to bounce lightly before answering.<span style="color: DarkRed"> "Aye, cap'n. We have an accord, by my blood I swear it." </span>Ruby declared boldly.<br/><br/>That was over two weeks ago and the only plan she had was to actually climb up the ropes holding the ship to the docks, climb past the captains window, and to the helm itself...all without Amalia seeing her.<span style="color: DarkRed"> "Tis now or never, Ruby."</span>The pirate mumbled to herself before sliding into the water at the rear of the ship. She swam slow and with the sounds of the wake bouncing lightly against the hull. It took just a few minutes for her to get to the rope, and quietly pull herself from the water and up to the captains window. Ruby focused her good hazel eye and peered into Redmane's cabin. She spotted the old captain fast, studying maps and plotting courses, enthralled in his work. The younger pirate gave a quick snort-laugh and tossed a small ruby over his head and on his pillow with accuracy that she wish she could have while pitching coppers against Taz.<span style="color: DarkRed"> -If only she had seen that- </span>Ruby muttered internally, and finished her ascension to the helm. She took a quick glance, and seeing the coast clear, quickly boarded and scurried to the forward crows nest. She took the moment to reflect on the accomplishment. Sure, she didn't get to bounce bed to bed this time, but the captain made a silly bet, and she'd won.<span style="color: DarkRed"> "Well, I did get one lay for my work." </span>She smiled, and quietly crossed to her normal home on the main crows nest.<br/><br/>The sun and seagulls were the only things not making her head pound, as the black haired pirate was awakened with a foot in her ribs, and a sudden clomping that made Ruby curse loudly,<span style="color: DarkRed"> "Damn ye to the devil girl with all that stomping, an gimmie that rum back." </span>Ruby rolled to the free side of nest, scrubbing her eye free of the sleep within it.<span style="color: DarkRed">"The next time ye think ya be sleepin on me, take yer boots off."</span>Ruby grabbed the bottle of rum, slogged down a couple gulps before handing it back to Taz, then tied her hallmark rose red banana over her black locks.<br/><br/>She surveyed the scene and was pretty sure the sleeping arrangements were odd, given that Ruby recalled the smaller pirates ass on her stomach, and bent like ballerina, with her head on the planks. Her top most of the way off, she tucked her breasts back into the stretch material, and quickly checked for a new tattoo and her dagger.<span style="color: DarkRed"> "Welp, no Taz back there that I can see.... And give it back.." </span>Ruby grinned seeing her dagger form jutting from Taz's belt.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>