Welcome to Gaia! ::

There was a crewman who welcomed her on board. "Ahoy. What ye be comin ere for?" His speech was rough but understandable. He was holding some rope as though he had been coiling it up. "Ifin ye be lookin for the capn she be in er room or yonder." He pointed to a closed door that was at one end of the deck.

The door swung inwards as Orianna opened the door to see who actualy bothered to knock. "Yes?" She asked even as her eyes latched onto Lindsey's. "Ah. Welcome to my ship Ms. Lindsey. How can I help you?" She tried to sound as though it was merely business for she knew there were deckhands around the deck. "Would you like to come in?" The captain took note of how there was a distrust in the other woman's body language. She stepped aside so that the elven woman could enter.

"Nothing serious I hope." Orianna said as she closed the door to the cabin. The room had a desk and a bed. There were a few things adorning the walls including a map. All in all it was neat and well organized for a ship cabin. "Please take a seat." The captain offered a chair as she herself sat down on the end of the bed and picked up a board with paper resting on it. "Thank you for coming to tell me about your brother. Personally I was surprised when he agreed with her...looking so far along."

The merchant nodded her head when asked if her name was pronounced correctly. "Oh I have been a lot of places so sometimes it is easy to forget where I am from. Its a smallish island named Ireland. I haven't seen my motherland in years. For the most part I consider myself a daughter of the sea." She smiled brightly as her hand moved over the paper with a pencil. "I have to admit its been some time since I saw an elf off Calypso's Isle. At least 10 years. Your's is a good people though. I am proud to have both of you willing to work for me."

She paused her hand for a moment to play a little with the small ring on a chain around her neck. After a second or two she started again glancing up at Lindsey once and a while. "That is a very lovely tattoo you have. Did it cost you much?"

The woman's face fell a little but the smile didn't leave her lips. "No. Sadly the last person I was with was killed about 3 years ago. His shop was attacked by bandits and he died trying to save it. Thats why I started this business. A memorial to his life work." She then sighed a little putting the pencil down. "Since then I really hadn't thought about relationships. What about you? A lovely lass such as your self couldn't have trouble finding someone to be with right?"

Orianna tilted her head only a fraction of an inch as she listened to the elf confess her preferance. "Well after being at sea all this time I don't find that at all strange. But then again I have had one or two relations with women too. Just something I did when I first sailed. Didn't trust the crewmen as far as I could spit." She rolled her eyes at the memory. She then turned the paper she had been working on around to revile a very detailed image of a lion laying in a field. "Do you think that would make a good tat?"

Right as Orianna opened her mouth to answer a blur of fur shot between the women and started winding its way up around Orianna's torso to perch of her shoulder. It was a ferret and from the looks of it he felt left out. "Oh for crying out loud Rummy." Orianna said as she reached up and took the animal down. "Sorry he is really obnoxious when he wants to be." She then looked into Lindsey's eyes again. "I have no tattoos on me as of yet. I could never find anyone I trusted enough to help me with it. Maybe since you have done one before I'll let you try it."

The little wormy rodent squirmed until it got out of Orianna's grip and then raced back to it's shoulder perch where it chittered and made noise at Lindsey. Orianna rubbed her head a little embrassed.