Elain tilted up her chin to meet Marry's eyes and smiled.  To her surprise, she realized she was truly relaxed for the first time in a very long time...  Maybe for the first time since her father and her lord's heir--lord of her heart, she sometimes fancied--had vanished in the night.<br/><br/>The girl's smile stretched to a grin, "You know, I've got a good feeling about this."  She had too giggle at the ridiculousness of it all.<br/><br/><em>I've become a bloody pirate, and I've got a good feeling about this.  </em>