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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:00 am
Kechiri 1
She had heard rumors about an illegal kinfa shipment, and she was want for a new pet. Kinfa were showy and beautiful and revered by many, those who had a kinfa’s loyalty stood head and shoulders above others who didn’t have a great predatory bird to back them up. She wanted one, she could make a nice nest up in the rigging for it, would come in handy too on raids one day, she thought.
“Theriar, I hear there is a kinfa shipment going down, what say you we go greet em, proper. Smuggling never pays. She smirked. She needed practice at silent subterfuge anyway. Eggs were nice and quiet usually, ‘cept they was about to hatch.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:00 am
Theriar 1
“Is there now?” He cracked open a coconut and left it to shrivel a bit in the sun, made the meat easier to peel off. He liked coconuts. Good pirate food. Lots of fat. “Are you perchance proposing that we give these good folks a visit, so as you can up your skill level a bit?” It was a good exercise, high stakes, but the prentice was light and quiet and most importantly willing to do whatever it takes. He thought it would be a good plan. So long as he was somewhat close to their ship to bail her out should she need it. “Kinfa are fun, at least we don’t have to deal with the parents, that sort of thing is best left to your uncle and dad.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:00 am
Kechiri 2
“I think it would be fun, Best to make the treasure worth it, especially for the first time.” She bounced up and down on her feet, the excitement going through her. This would be both her first test and her first score. Kinfa were worth their weight in gold in the egg, the fresher the bond the better and nothing beat right out of the egg. “I feel like I might want to wait for darkness though,” She wasn’t dumb..that she knew of, use all the advantages available to you to help ensure success in your mission.
“I’m just so excited.”
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:25 am
Theriar 2
Darkness fell soon enough and he manuevered the boat close to the sleeping pirate ship. It was foggy so the weather was even in their favor. He lowered Kechiri over the rail by rope so she would not make a splash in the water. She was armed with water proof egg cases and a small knife or forty. He hoped she didn't have to use the weapons but one would be foolish to sneak aboard a ship that way. He was supposed to stay unless there was a fracas, then he would leave the boat to the smallish crew they had collected and go save his friend's granddaughter from whatever mess she got herself into.
He didn't feel like this was wrong at all, they were actually saving the birds who were being shipped without proper duties applied.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:35 am
Kechiri 3
She was lowered gently into the water, as she decended she pondered at how strong Theriar was, this was either due to him being male, or being an alk hybrid, or both, but she was both grateful and impressed with his steady strength now.
Not that she was heavy.
Her toes dipped down into the water that felt like her second home. She had never understood those who were intimidated by water, maybe the deep sharky stuff but not just water in general.
It was a part of her and she a part of it.
She tugged on the line and let go, body slicing handily through the wavelets as she swum strongly.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:40 am
Theriar 3
Thus began the hardest part of the night, he secured the rope, in case she needed to climb up it at some point. He fed his white snaptrotter Rhiannon a treat of dried mackerel as they waited.
"If something goes wrong, you go first and try to distract them or help her, I'll be there as soon as possible." He booped her nogging with his gently closed fist. "You take your fishy self over there pronto you hear? Its our hides on the line if I don't get that little girl back to her extremely scary daddy in one piece. We are too ignore that she has a self destruct sequence and a trigger happy finger."
He hoped when he had kids that they would be just a modicum less spicey.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:44 am
Kechiri 4
She got to the side of the enemy boat well enough, the water remaining her ally and choosing not to bash her against the rounded hull like so much filthy laundry, for which she was grateful, she was too pretty for bruises anyway.
She quietly stabbed her knives into the hull to get good grip points, she had chosen the spot that Theriar recommended which was no where near the crew bunks. They were hoping that as pirates were wont to do that most of them had gone to bed quite drunk. She would only have to really worry about someone relieving themselves over the rail.
She made good progress and slithered over the top after making sure the watchman was on the other side of the boat. Her arms ached horribly from the exercise, she would have to up her physical training.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:03 pm
Theriar 4
He kept a stern eye on the dimmed ship's light, in a fracas, the light would be unveiled so people could see the intruders. It remained shuddered. He hated waiting but was more than happy to do so in this case. He would wait until she skillfully scaled the rail back here.
He stroked Rhiannon for want of anything better to do. Rhiannon liked Kechiri, thus Rhiannon would protect her. Rhiannon loved him most though as her Master. He was flattered.
Now he was just alone, waiting with his thoughts about what could go wrong and how he would respond to the scenario.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:10 pm
Kechiri 5
She swiftly searched the deck but she was sure that if anywhere the eggs would be in the captain's cabin where all the heat was as it was above the galley. It would be unfortunate if the captain were too alert.
She slunk to the door, moving slowly and quietly from shadow to shadow. Using the natural noises of the ship to cover up any that she might make.
It was an art; sneaking was.
She cracked the door and peered interestedly at the shadowy maw.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 12:13 pm
Theriar 5
He made himself a tea. This was hard work, worrying so hard about someone else on another ship. It was good that regular pirates didn't have moral or feelings mostly. It was a hard job through and through. He needed to take that naturalist out again. That had been fun and relaxing, or even Noelani. She was an excellent adventure partner. Most of all he would spend some real quality time with his Onora. She of the lovliest of locks.
He sighed, daydreaming about Onora was one of his favorite passtimes after all.
The clock ticked onward.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:51 pm
Kechiri 6
Wonder of wonders the cargo guard must be off sleeping or relieving himself elsewhere, for there was not a sailor in sight. Gleefully, she found the correct crate and stuck her little blue paws in there gently, carefully removing eggs one by one until she had filled a little water proof black bag as full with eggs as she could and have the padding still work. She took deep breaths as she did it. Stay calm no matter what, no matter the thrill or her racing heart. Quickly and quietly. She sealed the pouch and stole right back out of there, disappearing silently over the rail to scale slowly down the hull and dip back into the sea. She swam strongly with her precious cargo and headed for the ship that would bear her away from this place and to safety
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:51 pm
Theriar 6
The night really was deadly boring when you were waiting on pins and needles for something. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he heard a quiet scraping on his hull. He lowered a rope and hauled the girl aboard, he felt she must have been successful with the huge grin she had on her face. He sailed quietly away, the pirates none the wiser that some of their booty had been pirated. Only when they were far enough away, did they talk.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:51 pm
Kechiri 7
She sat shivering with adrenaline under one of Theriar's special hand woven blankets. It was like warm like a hug and she wanted to buy three of them off him after this. "I gathered as many as I could, but something felt off and I retreated. " All was fair, but valor was not in her line of work. "I hope they made the voyage okay." They had long since left the other ship in the dust and it had helped to bring her heart rate down considerably. She opened the pouch and promptly placed the first egg in Theriar's hands. "Payment for your instruction." She bowed her head in respect,
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:52 pm
Theriar 7
He for once did not know what to say. Just like that he held something precious and alive and his hands. It was lucrative it seemed to hang out with pirates, his eyes watered a bit. One always accepted a kinfa egg. They were rare and now it was guaranteed a good home. "Can tell you are a beast tamers get, girl." his voice was suspiciously gruff. "Doesn't look like the water seeped through, they should be viable still. Handy pirating little sea imp." He was very proud of her.
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:52 pm
Kechiri 8
"You're welcome. I plan to give my little brother one two, or he will never be able to keep up with me, let alone be a proper competitor. He is so young still after all that, Dad spoils him. I mean he is the only boy." She sat curled up with her legs underneath her gazing into the pouch full of kinfa eggs, basically a bag full of wishes. The eggs were so valuable. "I like pirating pirates." She still wasn't sure what she felt for her brother. Love, jealousy, raging competition; all of the above.
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