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Ten people in varying states of grunginess, sat around a table pouring over a map of a very familiar castle...

"If we strike from here," one of them said motioning towards the western part of the castle, "we can back them up towards the sea and distract the navy with the decoys giving them no way to escape!"

One of the only women sighed, "That's all very well and good if we can distract them!" She stood up and glared, "Need I remind you that even us impersonating literal legends hasn't gotten the King to put an actual force out to even try and find us. So what makes you think that he'd send. The. Entire. Navy. Against us!"

To rebut her one of the other men spoke up, "Kali, you have voiced your concerns in the past. But I can assure you that this will be different."

"How."

"Because the five of you and your crews will be staging a full out attack on the navy."

Kali looked at the man for a second before responding, "You really think that me and my crew are suicidal enough to agree to that? Because if so, you're more imbecilic than I thought." She pushed herself away from the table, "I initially agreed to this because you said there would be more loot than an entire fleet could carry and the respect of having taken down a major naval power. So far, all I've received is the degradation of having to take on another's title, forfeiting my own I should add, twice as many people trying to blow holes in my ship, and No. Money." Kali took a deep breath, "So I'm out." Then she looked at the other four captains still at the table, "And if you four were smart, you would be too."

Without looking back, Kali left. Leaving a butterfly styled mask behind. Slowly another woman in the room stood up and looked the other men in the room in the eye and said, "Kali's right. My crew's lives are not worth this risk." She laid her own peacock styled mask on the table and turned to the three remaining captains, "May wind always fill your sails and the waves see you smoothly to your destination."

"And may fortune and glory always dog your heels." The four murmured in reply, but before she could leave one of the bandits blocked her path.

"I apologize. It seems you bilge rats are under the assumption you can just jump ship whenever you feel like it." The bandit pulled out a dagger and stuck it dangerously close to her gut, "Now I don't care who you think you are Gabrielle, go sit down before we make your oh so precious crew to clean your guts off the floor."

Glaring at the man she did as she was told and the meeting continued in a much different tone than it had started. Where before the bandits and pirates talked openly and voiced their opinions, now the pirates were silenced and the bandits no longer even pretended to want the input of their seafaring counterparts.

Before long the plan was finalized and the four pirate captains were dismissed. As she was leaving she gave the bandits one finale warning, "You have made dangerous enemies this day. Don't be surprised when the sea comes to collect." The ignored her and no one saw her take Kali's mask.

This turned out differently than I thought it would.

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