"Glad to see you're starting to embrace Blink's possibilities."  Rose commented, grinning, as she set out into the ship.  The search took a little while, looking through each room, searching for hidden enemies, always on the lookout for a trap or ambush...  Each of the pirates' rooms had nothing in it, however, and neither did the lumber room, or the brig.  Some of those bones did look a little ominous, though.<br/><br/>Really now, keeping skeletons in the brig?  The shifter found herself wondering just how much of a storybook villain Bikke was trying to come off as.  The pirate hat, the scruffy black beard, the treasure chests, the big old flag with the skull and crossbones...  It wasn't a particularly smart image to try to project, either, given that villains in those stories always lost.  Heroes triumphed, and here, reality had mirrored those stories and he'd lost.  Well, except that he hadn't even done as well as those old villains in the storybooks, given that he was unconscious six second after they'd set foot on his ship.<br/><br/>A real villain was always the last person the heroes faced in a given set of encounters, the evil villainous mastermind behind all the problems that plagued them...  Like Garland, for example.  ...Except that she'd knocked him out in one hit during their first encounter, hadn't she?<br/><br/>Oh well.  Reality rarely mirrored fantasy anyway, aside from magic and dragons existing.<br/><br/>After making a full circle of the ship, Rose returned to Aria, shaking her head to let the woman know that she hadn't found anything.  She looked over the treasure chests appreciatively, then turned to her companion, grinning.<br/><br/>"Well, it looks like we might need some help finishing off that ice cream before it melts."  She had fond memories of her first taste of ice cream.  Before then, she'd had no idea you could make such delicious frozen treats with just a little milk and sugar...  "The rest of the ship is clear, so if you don't mind giving the ship a proper searching on your own, I'll go and ask our two friends if they want to help us get this baby into port in one piece."<br/><br/>If Aria agreed, Rose would head back out on deck, checking to make sure that all the dead pirates and the captured Bikke were where they'd been left, and would then wave to the two sailors to get their attention.  Shortly afterwards, she would pop on over and, after presenting the two of them with their earrings and the single barrel of rum she'd put into that bag of holding, she would make her proposition to the two of them:  She'd brought one barrel off the ship with her, but there were plenty more back on the ship, plus quite a bit in the way of dried and preserved food.  If the two of them were willing to help get the ship securely docked, they'd all be able to throw one hell of a party...<br/><br/>The thought also occurred to her that it was probably fair to cut the two sailors in on whatever money they got from selling the ship, but she figured it would be a good idea to wait until that idea could be proposed to her companion, rather than cutting the rogue out of the decision-making loop.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Not a bad haul, all things considered. ;D