Narwen walked along the quay, and back up the docking ramp to the ship. The sun was low on the horizon, gleaming red over the sea. The ship swayed slightly with the rythm of the waves, it's sails gently flapping. Walking down the deck, with the salt air blowing on her face, the cabinboy ran up.
"Narwen, captain wants you in his cabin. Now." She looked down at the young lad. "Did he say why?"
"No, he only said to come right away. He sounded angry." She pondered this for a moment, and then replied to the boy, "Thank you. I'll be with the captain in a minute." He ran off as she wondeed to herself, "Could he have heard about the fight?" But, she knew better than to defy the captain's wishes.
Rapping smartly on the cabin door with her knuckles, she waited for the captain's call of "Enter." Walking inside, she saw him seated in his chair, boltedto the hull of the ship for when things got stormy. "Yes sir?" she politely inquired.
He looked up at her from a chart he was reading. "Narwen," he growled, "I heard about the fight. You are to leave the ship this instant."
"What?!" she protested. "What is the meaning of this?"
"I have no use for an insubordinate woman that starts fights." Narwen's eyes widened in sudden anger. "Insubordinate? STARTS FIGHTS!? I obey every orderyou have ever given me, and they accused me of cheating, so I taught them a little lesson! What is wrong with that? You have no right to throw me off the ship! You.."
The captain interupted. "My dear woman," he said, stressing the word, "I told you to leave the ship this instant. It is not your place to talk back to your catain, or get into fights. I don't know why I even sighed you onto my ship in the first place."
Narwen's blood began to boil, making her irrational. "If I was a man," she spat at him, "you wouldn't even have me in here." He smiled maliciously at her. "Ah, but you are a woman, are you not? Dismissed. Off the ship." Narwen ground her teeth, but obeyed.
As she stalked off the ship, belongs from her cabin stowed in a pack, the only thought in her mind was revenge. Getting back at him. But, as she walked along the streets, the same one she had walked but a few hours earlier, her brain began to settle, and she began to think logically. The first thing she would have to do would be to find a place to stay. Than she could go about finding another ship. And earning an indisputable place on board, so no captain would or could kick her off.
She would show them all. (BWA HA HA HA!!
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[ February 05, 2003: Message edited by: Hirilaelin ]
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