<strong>"Ye sure ye want to go near Drago, lil' one?",</strong>the answer came after she was given a look-over.<strong>"Lookin' for regular food twice a day? Why not, I hear he's got space for another couple of blokes, so he might have enough fer several girls like you. Either way, his ship, "The Fat Boar", is the second after this trio of so-called whalers. Ha! Well, I guess they might catch a whale or two, if they meet a fat Southern merchant named Whale...but it ain't gonna be in the Northern seas, mark ye my words!"</strong><br/>And the man resumed his walk. The cargo doesn't load itself, and thus stevedores are in demand now. They might return to other lines of work during the winter, but you shouldn't be here by then...<br/>***<br/>"The Fat Boar" is a good-looking ship that would be a knarr, if she was less lean. Or she'd be a longboat, if she was just a bit leaner.<br/>Either way, she's currently loading the last of its cargo. Far as you can see, Drago should be the man in chain* standing next to her steering wheel: most captains would rather let someone feel the tits of their wives than the wheel of their ships.<br/>Though in that place of honor there's another man, too. Standing right next to the supposed captain, the man is darker-skinned than the locals - though only by a shade, a Southerner wouldn't probably see a difference. This one only has a sword, and his all-black clothes are of woven cloth, and maybe even expensive satin, and not seal or whale leather, like what many of the sailors wear.<br/>In fact, everything about him is black, including the handle of his sword.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">*</div><div class="spoiler_body">Mail, not chains like a prisoner. Chain used to assume armour, in those times, so chain<em>mail</em> is the same kind of pointless repetition as saying "The Fujiyama mountain"...given that "yama" means "mountain" in Japanese. Of course, a personal weapon is assumed in this culture - he's got an axe, in this case.</div></div>