"What the hell is that?"  Cairn hissed. lifting her chin to point at the, the thing that was lurking behind a barrel.  "Aödh, something just dropped out of the rigging, scurried behind that barrel!"  Cairn whistled sharply, fingers of the hand at  her belt near her dagger pointed at the creature.  "We've been boarded! Small, very small, not at all human!   It'll try for that hatchway, the only way it'll get below, somebody get over there, seal that hatch!"<br/><br/>She lifted the dagger from the sheath, readied it for a throw.