Note: Sorry to've been gone so long, folks, Comp troubles.
Maighdlin slowly awoke the day after their escape and lay there for a time, letting her mind catch up on all that had happened. She had been captured by pirates, help prisoner by the ugliest brutes she had ever seen, and then broken out of said prison with the aid of the strangest two Beasts she had ever met. The fact that they were both Bounders, like herself, never entered her mind. She sllowly wrose and stepped over to the fire, and stoked it back up to full flame. About that time, the male woke up...
Fynn looked over at the muscular Bounder girl stoking the fire and thought Hmmm...She looks like she's led a hard life...I wonder where's she's from? He got up and wandered over to her, and was about to strike up a conversation when the other one awoke and came over, and he promptly shut his mouth and turned away.
Alanis set down silently, not looking towards the damn merc, and stared into the flames. I wonder what she's doin' here? She thought to herself, and decided to ask. "I am searching for my brother, he was lossed on board a ship coming from New Badari, the Emmer Essen." Alanis raised her eyebrows. "Really? An' what would ye be doin' in New Badari, lass?" Maighdlin, as she had said her name was, looked up and frowned. "That is where I grew up..." She said, obviously avoiding th question. They fell into an akward silence, and sat that way through breakfast, and for a long time after.
Maighdlin sat there for a long time, dwelling on the memories brought up by Alanis' curiosity, and when the elder Bounder stood up, it surprised her. "Come on, t'en, ye blighters! We've got to go see what we can do fer South Beach!" The merc, Fynn, was strongly against this, saying that they should get off the island as quickly as possible, until Alanis cursed him for a coward and he lost his temper. "Fine, t'en, ye old bag! Ye wanna get us killed? Well, t'en, come on!" And he stormed off in the direction of South Beach, and Alanis shrugged and followed. Maighdlin shook her head a little, got up, extinguished the fire, and followed...