"The Captain himself?"  Mary's eyes widened in surprise, she rose at once to follow the man, slinging her musket barrel down one one shoulder, her bag on the other.<br/><br/>It did not escape her notice that Tom approached the capatin from the front - he made a point of being seen and heard.  She knew the tpe, a few veterans of the Indian Wars were that... jumpy was the polite word.<br/><br/>Murdurous, that was the accurate word.<br/><br/><br/>Her eyes flicked around the room.... Arouj was on edge, he was tensing.<em>Oh what the hell now</em>, she wondered silently.<br/>