That. Damned. Box. Wouldn't. Budge! Althea was seriously getting annoyed at her "home". More like prison, really. She started stemming herself against the lid yet again, when she heard voices from outside the box. Maybe Tom had finally come? While he was at it, he could hopefully also help her get out of that damned thing!<br/><br/>... no, that didn't sound like Tom. Apparently, there were two people here, a man and a woman, neither of whom she recognized by voice. Althea stopped her attempts to free herself and listened. Their conversation was strange, to say the least. It almost sounded like they had never met before. More confusingly, the woman called Caitlyn seemed to think that the view was<span style="font-style: italic">scenic</span>. Althea had had enough time to study every inch of the cargo hold, and it most certainly wasn't<span style="font-style: italic">scenic</span>. As far as she knew (not having much experience with cargo holds), cargo holds in general weren't scenic. Could it be she wasn't on the ship at all? Now that she thought about it, the ship (or not ship?) was surprisingly calm. Especially considering the storm yesterday. Caitlyn had also said they'd been washed up, which sounded like they were on land. A beach, probably. But that didn't make sense. How would her crate get on a beach? If the ship had been broken somehow and the crate fallen into the water, it should have gotten quite wet in here. But it wasn't. It all didn't make sense.<br/><br/>Still, that improved her situation. If she wasn't on the ship anymore, she didn't need to fear being found by the crew. Although, if her previous experiences with legged people were any indicator, she could probably except screaming and shouting and people acting crazy anyway. She grimaced. Oh well, it wasn't like she hadn't dealt with that before. First priority was getting out of the box now. The woman hadn't attempted to open the box using the lid, for some reason. Maybe it was locked or something. That would also explain why she had been unable to open it. It would probably be best to just stem against the same side she was trying to open...<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 the second, this time against the cracked side (14): <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/394149">http://orokos.com/roll/394149</a><!-- m --><br/>I seem to excel at rolling 11s :P</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;">Fun fact: At first I read it as that I <span style="font-style: italic">couldn't</span> make out the voices, which led to Althea becoming quite scared of being found in the cargo hold, and readying Commanding Gaze on the one opening the box :x<br/>This is probably a better outcome XD<br/><br/>Also, we might want to agree on a tense to use; it's a bit odd to switch backward and forward while reading. I switched to past, since that's was most people are using, but I think that might be quite weird in battle. What do you guys think?</div></div></div>