The men's aquamarine eyed widened as Rose drew a connection between the chaos about the Circus they'd spoken of having heard about, and the ship in their gaze now. "Valkur's knickers!" one swore, and despite such an offhand oath to that sailors' god, tugged a lightning-cloud symbol of the god out of the v-neck of his tunic and tapped it superstitiously.<br/><br/>The mention of Sara made their eyebrows rise further still, and their anger a bit too, it seemed. They traded uncertain glanced at the first mention of sailing out, but then one nodded in dawning understanding as Rose mentioned the distance. "A thousand feet? It presently seems but half again that distance or so, you wouldn't get that much better a view.."<br/><br/>The other interjected, "Teleporting magic, do I wager Or flight magic of fleeting duration?" He'd raised one eyebrow and nodded slowingly. "Ahh, it all comes together, when we were on the boardwalk proper ad listening to the rumors what first came down the avenue..."<br/><br/>The other smacked his fist lightly. "Aha! When the pirates were stopped - we<em>heard</em>'twere one or two teleported right into the midst of one bunch! Now why do I suppose 'twas the two of ye?"<br/><br/>His fellow was already moving towards the trimaran's simple past, "If you can make short work of the others, 'twill be payment enough, though if any scallywags still aboard have a gold earring or two ye wouldn't miss overmuch..."<br/><br/>The other mariner moved in another direction, saying, "....or better yet, some flasks of rum! Presuming your teleport back has the same range, we'll try to keep in it...will have to move about to avoid suspicion, though,or perhaps we'll pick a spot and throw out fishing poles, as we oft do anyway. And we'll likely best approach it from an oblique angle now..."<br/><br/>Aria, often fascinated by things mechanical and sometimes nautical, watched as one mariner unmoored the trimaran and then rotated its rudder down into the water. The other pulled a lever upon the single mast. A weight on a rope fell from the top of the mast and landed in a small net alongside its base; it proved a counterweight which swiftly lifted and unfurled the two tan sails.<br/><br/>The craft began to move; the mariner who'd set the rudder down moved to an elevated and rotating seat at the rear of the central hull, grasping two attached, mechanically jointed handles which presumably steered the rudder. "Wind's against us, so we'd have to approach oblique anyway, a welcome excuse," he called as the vessel drifted away from the pier.<br/><br/>the other called back, "...'twill provide a quicker getaway if need be."<br/><br/>Despite the angle they took tacking back and forth, zigzagging closer but seemingly destined to move far past the ship to the left right than right for it, they made swift progress.<br/><br/>It also wasn't long, though ,before the dancing figure on the large ship's crow's nest lifted a spyglass right in the trimaran's direction, then faux-casually hurled a liquor bottle down from his lofty perch, its landing unseen but presumably quite a smash. The other two visible figures on the deck stopped a moment, looked up at the pointing crow's next figure, and then across the boardwalk and piers and moving trimaran. However, they then resumed dancing.<br/><br/>About as they came in range from Rose's teleporting, the two mariners were attaching great, long (and probably highly visible from afar) fishing poles to forked holding rods which swiveled up from the edges of the trimaran's right hull (the side more visible from the ship). Aria asked Rose, "Activate our blinking rings again, I suppose, like when you 'ported us up a block for the other pirate battle?" The redhead pulled into hand and held behind her thighs a sap and a throwing hammer, the former in case the chose to question anyone again, the latter for throwing range if needed. Since such things were easy enough to drop, and her favorite kukris' handles were affixed with crystals of Art to ease the drawing, it'd become her habit not to actually do so until their business ends were also immediately called for.