Althea is a bit worried. How long was she knocked out? Based on her hunger (a surprisingly accurate timekeeper for a Lamia), it must have been quite a while. Odd. Tom, the cook's assistant, should have been here with the leftovers by now. Maybe he got hurt when the ship was shaken? On that note, why was it shaken? It couldn't exactly have hit a pot hole, could it now? Really, when you think about it, there isn't too much you can hit at sea. Only the shore. Not that you were supposed to hit that, but at least you<span style="font-style: italic">could</span>hit it. It was all so very confusing.<br/><br/>In any case, that Tom had not come was a certain indicator that something was wrong. And considering that apparently nobody else had bothered to check on the cargo, something was probably very wrong. It would probably be best to at least look how bad the cargo room looked, and go from there. Althea flexed her muscles, and stemmed open the box that had been her home for the past weeks...<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Strength check is 14, if needed: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/393930">http://orokos.com/roll/393930</a><!-- m --></div></div></div><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Intelligence 9 -&gt; slowed conclusions and simple sentences :x</div></div></div>