Silent Sparrow By: Rika Kisuktai
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Note: I LOVE JACK!
Tavern, Tortuga
Jaquline felt strange about the man she had just robbed.
She had never seen him before in her life, but she felt like she knew him.
Call it her "sixth sense", call it the rum messing with her head, but she felt the same turmoil in him as she did in her.
It had something to do with his father.
"Mug o' rum, Sparrow?" The bartender asked.
"Bottle of rum." She answered, placing her coins on the table.
Her coins, not the man's.
The bartender gave her the bottle and snatched the coins off the counter.
Jaquline took a thoughtful gulp of the rum.
She had stolen from about thirty-five people since she had become the Silent Sparrow.
Thirty-five people in two days.
So, why did this one man make her feel guilty?
She took another gulp of rum.
"What'll it be?"
"We're looking for the Silent Sparrow. We need to talk to her."
Jaquline almost choked on her rum.
She glanced over at the man talking to the bartender.
It was the man she just robbed!
"The Silent Sparrow is usually either here, or at the inn." The bartender said gruffly.
"Why do you need ta talk to her?" Jaquline asked in a deep voice.
"It's personal." The woman behind him said.
Jaquline stood up and started toward the door.
"I'm truthfully sorry 'bout yer boots mate." Jaquline whispered as she passed the man.
Then she took off running.
"???…Wait! That was the one who took my things!" The man said, and he took off after her.
Jaquline twisted and turned through the streets of Tortuga, always running, but always letting them follow her closely.
Finally, she stopped at a dead end. She turned toward a box and got her sword that her father gave her out of its hiding spot.
She turned to face the couple. The man drew his sword, and stepped closer.
"Why did you steal my things?"
"Girl's got ta make a livin' somehow." She answered.
Jaquline lunged forward, sword flashing.
They stood in place, trading feints, thrusts and parries with lightning speed, almost impossible to follow.
Then, while their swords were locked, Jaquline asked an unexpected qusestion.
"Did it hurt?"
"Did what hurt?" The man asked, confused.
"You know- snip,snip." She made a scissor cutting motion with her free hand.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, you have a certain air about you that yells 'eunich'. I mean, how did you find all the time to practice sword-fighting?"
Jaquline kicked the confused man in the privates, causing him to curl into a ball on the ground.
Jaquline shrugged.
"Whoops. Guess I was wrong. Sorry!" She said, then climbed the wall.
She stood on top of the small wooden wall, and threw down the man's knife and money.
Then she jumped down on the other side, with a smirk on her face.
She took a gulp of rum and smiled.
"There she is!" A gravely voice sounded arcoss the ally that she found herself in.
At the end of the ally were two dirty looking men.
Jaquline dived for a door to her right.
Inside, she locked the door, and smiled.
"Jaquline?"
Jaquline turned around slowly.
She was in the inn, the inn-keeper glaring at her.
"Oh bugger." Jaquline muttered.
Chapter 4 done!
Hee hee…Will got kicked in his privates!
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