Interview 7 con.
"That was the first time they brought in a bounty. It most certainly would not be the last" he finished. shaking his head as he did so. he looked down at one of the pictures on the table he had brought out. "Over the next couple of months, I kept running into them, even off duty". he flipped the photo around to show a family, with two young girls, fishing off the side of a metal ship with Javelin and the now-named Rangitaiki. "We became close and one day they invited us aboard of a weekend sail. we took it and that was the best weekend we have ever had. Eliza and Floria loved it, gave them the love of the sea. When they aren't here they are out sailing, both of them own successful merchant ships based out of Torvica." He smiled again and put the photo down, and picked up another one.
"One time we reached an agreement and I was allowed aboard on with some of my most trusted men. We had heard an infamous slaver would be passing through the area, and all of us wanted to capture him. we searched all day and early in the afternoon we saw him just disappearing over the horizon. my men and I were dismayed there was no way we could catch up. Javelin just laughed, and Rangitaiki just smiled. 'Naw, don't worry we'll catch them' she said. My men and I questioned her on that but she didn't look worried at all. We angrily started at where the ship had disappeared. Eventually, we noticed that the ship was going fast. I turned to look and Javelin had an expression on her face. The thrill of the hunt is the best way I can describe it. Not in a bloodthirsty way, but in a 'that's cute you think you can escape' way."
"Here we were pounding through the waves faster than any of us had before." his eyes had a twinkle in them now "and before any of us knew it there was the slaver. Full canvas out, water on the sails, everything just trying to outrun us. They couldn't and once we caught up they gave in. Afterwards I asked Javelin how fast we were going and she told me somewhere around 36 knots. At the time I had never heard of any ship going that fast!" he showed me the picture. It had the large hull of Javelin behind the wooden form of a small fast ship. I presumed it was the slaver he was referring to [I would later be informed that this was indeed correct]. Now his shoulders slumped and his smile faded. "It couldn't last forever though, eventually the Assembly got wind of a strange metal ship operating in the area and grew interested. They planned to deploy forces in order to capture it and study the ship. Someone, I still don't know who had leaked that they worked well with the guard so the plan was to lure them in somehow. That didn't sit right with me. after everything they had done for us, we were now to betray them? I wasn't going to do that. So I created a plan…"