<div class="floatleft">(https://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo122/grizzly/Royce-Closeup.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Royce O'Malley<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Esperanza, Main Deck<br/><strong>Time &amp; Date</strong>: Day 1, Morning<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Devon<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Getting her sea legs<br/><hr/><br/>Royce busied herself with tightening up the sail lines on the deck as the Esperanza set sail.  She was an old hand at this.  Her knots were tight and quick, and she was not at all afraid of swinging out on the ratlines.  This is what she had grown to love, in spite of the harsh discipline of the Navy.  The streets of London were cramped and dirty, but a ship was only slightly less cramped but with a much better view.  A  tall ship under sail was indeed a magnificent thing.<br/><br/>The redhead watched the crew moving about the sail tops.  There were quite a few new hands up there, ones that stood out to a trained eye.  They moved a little less sure of themselves, on unsteady feet, and with fumbling hands.  Not that Royce could blame them.  Not every ship was as disciplined as the ones that she had learned on.  It was not hopeless, they could learn.<br/><br/>Royce took a moment to listen to the sounds of the ship, the voices of the department heads as they called out their orders.  She looked back at the ships wheel and the man holding on to it.  He wasn't a bad looking man, she decided.  At least not at first glance.  There would be enough time to see just what kind of man he was, and how he treated the crew.<br/><br/>She listened to him castigate a sailor about her knots.  There was going to be a lot of that, what with a whole new crew trying to figure out how to work together.  Royce made her way to the mans side.  "There's some fresh swabs up there what don't know knots from nuts." she said, indicating the sails.  "Ye're going to need a good right hand up top to help keep things straight.  That'll be me, if'n ye give me a chance.  I might not look it but I know me way around sails and ships wheels.  M'names O'Malley."