Captain's Log

Day 256

Today was as dull as the day before. My controlling elder sister, Lucille, refuses to let me take my ship to port so we can get more rum. She keeps insisting we "make haste" to Port Lyarta, but it is two days a way and we're all out of rum.

She is such a pain. All she ever does since we were little was telling me what to do and how to do it better. I should have known that just because we were older that wouldn't change.

Like when I was first appointed Captain by the crew, she kept trying to tell me who to make my first mate. Like I'd take her advice. Calypso's Dagger was her ship before mine and I need to prove to the crew that I'm not just here because my sister put me on her ship two year's ago.

So, I choose the person she wanted least to be first mate. I'll show her I don't need her advice. For once, I'll beat her at something. Ever since we were little everyone has asked why I'm not more like her and when they see us together they throw looks of pity between us; at me because I'm not as good as her because she has to put up with a disgrace of a sister. Even in looks, I fall flat in comparison.

I have blonde hair, brown eyes and a relatively pleasing figure, if I do say so myself and yet she still tops me, with her fiery red hair they always curves and waves but never seems messy. And her eyes, a royal blue. The crew of both her ship and mine love her; you can see it in their eyes, a lust for her and willingness to die for her. All of them, except Turner Wilson. He is the deckhand on my ship and he looks at me like the crew looks at my sister. Though, his affections are clear, I can do nothing about it. After all, he's just a deckhand he has no gold or riches. Still, I do give him slack and an occasional treat, an orange or sweet if I have one. And there is no harm in that, who is going to expect a lowly deckhand would be receiving my favor.

It is completely ridiculous to think-

Someone is knocking on the door to my quarters, it appears to be the first mate, and he is probably here to discuss the rum problem. Rum is all he seems to care about.

Nicki Sparrow