A long-suffering look came over<em>Effingham</em>'s face at this, and she put her arm out to block the path of the furious battleship. "Woah down there, Tex. Let's not do anything rash or anything." she said, in a moderately good impression of<em>Texas</em>' own voice. "I'm not exactly all hunky-dory about this either, but you don't see me flying off the handle and beating up on destroyers like you seem to be wanting to." she said sternly.<br/><br/>Right at that moment,<em>Abbeydale</em>tapped Tex on the shoulder. "Uhm..... If that offer of yours is still open, I wouldn't say no to a little help there, Miss Texas?"<br/><hr/><br/><em>Arashi</em>'s offer was accepted by<em>Zara</em>, but she only got that acceptance from the JTN, as Zara herself was going full on crazy babbling of outraged Genoese accented Italian, waving her arms wildly as she ranted about getting her appearance so sullied by the 'deranged destroyer', as she called<em>Maori</em>.