He was a warrior, a hero. Raised proudly from the barbarian peoples, granted the knowledge of generations, exalting as one of Luna's Chosen, passing the trials with flying colours, earning for himself the name of Fearless Claw, he was the bringer of the rightful downfall of civilization everywhere!
He was a seagull. It was mightily embarrassing. Nevertheless, he realized that, for the proper downfall of civilization, he must reach it's core undetected, and seagulls were really inconspicuous on ships. He let out a characteristic seagull-screech for good measure, and landed on the ship just as the last passengers were walking onto it. With nothing better to do for the moment, he simply watched the people going past.
One eighteen-year old girl in what seemed to have been quite expensive clothes before they were, it seems, forcefully redesigned. Or maybe it was all the rage in the Realm these days, he could never really tell. Everyone was staring at her, and with good reason. He found his gaze wandering off with her until he got a hold of himself and looked at the next person.
Another relatively young girl, although this one was much less impressive, in simple clothes and keeping her head down. She looked awfully depressed about something, though, poor thing.
And another… what was going on in this boat? A girls-only school's graduation party or something? No, wait this one wasn't a girl, he just thought so because he had a really delicate sort of face, must be one of those posh and refined patricians. He… or was it she? Could certainly be a girl, albeit a sort of flat-chested one, except… by Luna, this was confusing! Whatever it was, it carried a staff of little interest and no special expression, and he was going to stop trying to figure out its gender.
Then came these two people, one man and one woman. They looked sort of suspicious, although he could not point out exactly why. He stopped to think about that, but realized he couldn't remember what they looked like very well. That was odd, they certainly… no, wait, had they?