Aboard the Rum Cask

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Eldor laughed as he saw Kastron's several escape attempts, ''that kid surely scraps harder than a muskrat with a jar over his head.'' When he noticed that the brawl was coming to an end and the captain and Kastron were going back towards the ship, Eldor quickly slid down the roof, accidentally trampling someones window box of flowers in the process.

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Kastron gathered himself up and started back on his way towards the ship. He was halfway there when he remembered that he had left Eldor on the roof. He turned around to see if he was still there just in time to see him destroy the windowbox. He stood in the street and waited for Eldor to catch up to him. He was a little out of breath, and had gotten a little beat up in the fight.

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Once Eldor caught up and assessed Kastron's bruises, he said,'' well don't you have a nice collection of souvenirs from today.''

[Chloriosus]

Kastron smirked slightly. "It seems to be so, whatever that is. We should be getting back to the Rum Cask, though, I believe my father wants to cast off as quick as possible. What have you been doing?"

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''Nothing really, just watching you get beat up, well come on lets go,'' Eldor said, continuing toward the ship.

[Chloriosus]

The two got to the ship, where everyone was already waiting for them. The captain, still carrying his barrel on his shoulder, yelled down at the boys. "Up with ye, ye two slimy pieces o' worm ridden filth."He looked over the two boys. He looked over Kastron. "Where ye been you useless thing?"

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As the ship was reprovisoned and the boys were back on board, the Rum Cask made her way back into the open sea. During their stay they picked up another crew member, and Kastron seemed strangely familiar with him. ''Who is that fellow over there,'' Eldor asked.

[Chloriosus]

Kastron Looked in the direction Eldor mentioned. "Oh you mean him? His given names Drake, but his minds so numb he's known as Door Knob far and wide, often also as DK." Indeed, the youth seemed to have a rather large kink in his think, for in that same afternoon he managed to spill Aunt Pessilys' pot of soup, cut the wrong ropes, and got his foot stuck in the by now familiar bucket. It seemed he was Kastron's cousin of sorts, and in addition to the lacking in his knacking, he was also incredibly annoying. He hadn't been on board for fifteen minutes when the captain yelled at him. "DK YE JELLYFISH BRAINED MONKEY! Don't ye know that the wrong side of the mop yer scrubbin with?" DK looked up with surprise in his eyes. "Well sir I didn't wish to get your mop head dirty.", he said. As far as inteligence went, he didn't seem to have any of that either, for later that evening, Gerenway pulled out a picture of his young wife, of whom he was really very proud of. DK studied the picture intently. "That's a real hideous specimen o' great aunt, you got there.", he told Gerenway. Upon seeing his face redden, he quickly said, "But I'm right sure she can cook up some right down splendid food."

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There was another new passenger that day as well. One who was quite literally a sheep. Emmalinda had destructed Everone's nerves within the last our of his boarding, for she was under the impression that it was a nanny goat, and thought that it was going to have a kid. She was very distressed when she heard, from her father, that if the sheep did indeed have a kid, he was going to roast it. But there was no danger of that as it was a ram that a merchant was gladly able to unload on some gullible little girl. It was very disagreeable, and seemed to hate everybody, most of all to Emmalinda who took all his hateful antics for affection.

[Chloriosus]

Emmalinda had named the sheep butterbell, and had kept the name, even after finding out it was in fact a male sheep. Kastron and Eldor, however, promptly dubbed the wooly thing muttonbutt, and disregarded the thing entirely.

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''That sheep of your sisters is very freakish,'' Eldor told Kastron later that day.

[Chloriosus]

Kastron nodded. "Agreed. I might add that it seems to have more smartness than DK."

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''Maybe a bit,'' agreed Eldor solemnly.

[Chloriosus]

"Right. You up for stealing some biscuits?"

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''Not really,'' the truth was that Eldor was not used to stealing things from people, he also thought it was rather beneath him.