Navin woke up in the morning to find that his elf brother (as he figured would happen in the future) was not in the bunk across from the little boy. But what did it matter? Navin always new he had a problem with snoring problem so that was most likely the cause.

He threw back his covers and proceeded with his morning routine: take a quick shower so he could stay up late, slip on his clothes, pull on and strap his boots, load a few basic tools into his pockets, and put on his goggles as if they were a head band. But every once and a while he would slip them over his eyes just to see what he would look like if he ever wore them for a real purpose.

After he had brushed out his newly cropped brown hair (thanks to Karen), he stood in front of the bathroom mirror and admired himself in his goggles. Then he realized how un-manly it was to do something so girly, even though he knew that Trellis does the same thing with his hair. Navin removed his goggles and continued his routine to the dining room.

Leon was enjoying some waffles until he looked up and saw Navin. The fox man covered his mouth with his hand and leaned forward so the boy wouldn't see him laughing.

"Hey Leon!" Navin said, not sure what was wrong with the guy.

Leon didn't reply.

While Navin puzzled over this, a few other crew members entered and turned to face Navin to bid him good morning. All of them were cut off at the sight of his face. This became obvious to Emily's brother to where his just stopped smiling when another one of them walked in.

Luger was gracious enough to finally say, "My dear boy, I didn't know you had glasses."

Navin gasped and ran into the hallway to go find a mirror. Not paying attention, he stopped abruptly as he shoved into Trellis, who was outside his fish-infested room staring blankly at Gabilan through the window.

The elf turned his head and immediately broke into hysterical laughter.

Navin pushed him out of the way and examined his reflection in the window glass. He had two black rings around his eyes. "Aaaaaaaaaaaawww what the crap?!"

Just then, a pink bunny robot stepped past and patted the little boy on the back, then walking casually away.

Trellis laughed harder as Navin threw up his arms in shock.

"TRELLIS!"

The elf stopped laughing and saw Karen coming at him with an angry aura.

"Crap." And he was off.


About three hours later, Rico went into the kitchen to get some of leftover fish casserole that he and Enzo loved so much. On entering, the smell of his cooking was already drifting through the room, but it wasn't a warm smell. It was rotten.

The thin cat quickly opened the refrigerator and checked his leftovers to see if it was expired. But it wasn't. In fact, the smell came more strongly from the other side of the kitchen where the air vent was. Rico knelt down next to it to find that a pile of the casserole was sitting neatly in the middle of the vent, as it appeared that someone had scraped it into the air duct on purpose.

How could this have happened? Then only two people who ever ate it were Rico and Enz...oh.

As if on cue, the larger cat came into the kitchen and spied his brother kneeling next to the vent.

"Why the vent?" Rico asked.

Enzo just stood there with a guilty nervousness on his face. "...Well...you see...THAT ELF PRINCE HAS REALLY GOTTEN ON MY NERVES LATELY AND I JUST FIGURED I'D GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO LEARN SOME MANNERS."

"So this is your fault?!" said Trellis as he came in behind Enzo, overhearing the whole thing.

Of course, the sudden accusing voice cause the fat cat to jump out of his pants and cling to the cieling his claws.

The Elf Prince continued, "I haven't been able to sleep and Emily's mom is hunting me all because of YOU! You have to clean it up. I'll make sure to get a little payback for what you've blindly forced upon me, my brother, and all the other people on this ship that weren't happy about it."

Enzo would have groaned and complained but he was too scared.

Rico couldn't do anything since he agreed with what the prince was saying.

Trellis glared at the fearful kitty stuck to the cieling for another ten ugly seconds and then dissolved from the room.