<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/24/Token_1.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Penny (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=300519.msg14693656#msg14693656)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Gun Deck<br/><strong>Time &amp; Date</strong>: Day 1 | Morning<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Lawton | Open<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Ratting<br/><hr/>For a bit she'd come up onto the main deck and left the gloomy silence of the gun deck behind.  Penny had laid her prizes out beside her then let the sun warm her body as she lay silent as a priest's generosity and waited for her prey to come to her.  It turned out to be an interesting decision but ultimately a poor one.  There were too many people, too much noise on the main deck.  After being almost stepped over by a man, she knew it was a man from his voice and Devon's comment about her being a good lad, Penny decided to go back to where she'd found her luck.  It was a pity, there were so many interesting people about and the lush woman making the music made Penny's voice itch to sing along and the toes on her bare feet curl with the desire to dance.  She put one of them to use as she rolled onto her bottom, limber leg coming up across her belly and scratching at one of the fleas from the dead rats that was having a fine feast on her skin beneath her far too big for her top.  Penny rose to her full, entirely unimpressive height, then scooped the rats off the deck and headed back below to the gun deck.<br/><br/>The heavy guns were well lashed to the bulkhead, not moving in the slightest in their low, heavy wheeled carriages as the hint of tide made the<em>Esperanza</em>rock at her dock as if settling sleepily into the feather bed such a fine lady deserved.  Things creaked, noise came in from the gun ports, but it was relatively quiet so she was able to hear the man's footsteps approaching.  Penny listened as he began talking and for a moment was confused.  Who were all the girls he was talking to and why didn't she hear the swish of skirts, feminine giggles, or the crack of his hand across an ass?  Who was he talking to?  Who was he?  As the comments continued she had to put her hand over her mouth to stop the giggles from coming out.  Men could be so silly when they were sugar talking a girl.  It was fun to watch and she'd learned some very interesting phrases from them.  'Nipples dark as wine' was one she'd found very interesting and wondered what her own pale pink ones would garner as a comment?  Not that they were very impressive, as tiny as her breasts, but still!<br/><br/>Penny still didn't realize to whom Lawton's amorous comments were addressed when she felt him looking over her.  His words sent the rat's nose she'd seen just beginning to twitch over the edge of the gun port scurrying away.  Penny sighed then rolled to her side, fetching up half on to the man with her shoulder up against one of Matilda's wheels.  "Fancy talk but you got a name for e'ry other girl in here but me?"  She giggled then, the sound exploding from between her lips where her hand had kept them pushed down.  "Me's Penny!"  Rolling up onto her feet, she let the hand that held the belaying pin hang loose down by her side, slightly hidden by one leg as slender as a colt's.  "And them's mine," she pointed to the dead rats with crushed skulls in pride.  "Quarter-penny and quarter-penny make a hal' penny," she said, something clearly memorized and not a bit of math.  That skill was far above her reach and likely always would be.  "And once I got four I'll have a whole penny in bounty and then as much money as me name!"<br/><br/>"I'm a powder monkey, right?  Being small's good for that and I can work as hard and fast as the boys who do it too.  And I'm not careless and won't be making no spark or fire down below that'll blow this fine lady to flinders."<br/><br/>"I'd have had a third only you came down here making love to ladies I don't see.  You got some whoores," she pronounced the word with a stretched o sound, "laid up in here hiding?  I don't sees them," Penny finished with a look around then turned her hazel eyes back to Lawton's face.