<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c4/a2/eb/c4a2eb3622a5fd5f4149b8e094a22fa3.jpg)</div><strong>Name: </strong>Danae Vine-Lott (https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/13428552/mqOlTT)<br/><strong>Location: </strong>The Mercy, cargo hold<br/><strong>Wearing: </strong>White cotton jodhpurs, loose grey muslin riding shirt with collar open and sleeves rolled up, barefoot<br/><strong>Content: </strong>Feeling the plot thickening<br/><strong>Tagging: </strong>Jacqueline, Colleen<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"Mademoiselle," Danae addressed Jacqueline, feeling her way around the hold, "what do you reckon this smell is?".  The chemical smell was disconcerting.  She had no experience or knowledge of alchemy or of the sciences, and her encounters with those who used such substances had invariably been unsettling.<br/><br/>To Colleen she said, "What is beyond that door?"  She lunged, and pinned the girl to the wall, preventing any sudden move to escape, "Better yet, what do you keep inside the hold?  Why does it need a door such as that to keep it in?"<br/><br/>She pressed the full force of her soldier's frame against Colleen.  The girl seemed slight, but she'd had nasty surprises before with opponents whose size and appearance betrayed their lethality.  To feel smooth, unblemished skin against sunburnt skin felt so oddly pleasant.  It was certainly not the right setting, but she had seen the flash of bare thighs and a golden nest lying in between.  Close, tantalising.  Yes, she now knew why Baykur kept a cabin girl.  Many of her favourite whores and bargirls in Arden Bay she had shared with seafarers and some of these hardened women would lure girls to enlist with promises of silver and adventure.  She felt a twinge of nostalgia for her time on campaign, and of need.  If she needed to measure herself against Baykur the woman, she would have to prove herself worthy.  The soldier in her was always in search of a challenge.<br/><br/>"Mademoiselle Jacqueline," Danae turned to her companion, "what should we do with Colleen, who needs to be taught to answer promptly the questions that we put to her?"