Shore Leave ~ by SaralynArati

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10 years ago

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Two men, distinctly, maybe a third? But although Silver Fox is almost sure steel was drawn, there's no blood to be seen or scented. Surrounded, then? Whatever happened, Shooting Star proceeded this way, not entirely under her own power, and went into this house. It looks just like any other stucco and half-timber house of the port town. The shop on the first floor is a bakery, hardly sinister, yet it is into the basement of this house that Shooting Star, willingly or not, went and stayed.

10 years ago

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In fact, although he waits with Irayo, Shooting Star doesn't return to the ship all night. So, in the morning after some of the crew have come back from a night's carousing of whatever form, Silver Fox and Irayo go looking for her. Irayo knows where her mother lives, and thinks she might have gone that way... posted a letter, perhaps, from the ferry servicing that island. Silver Fox knows better; he can smell her. And she's fine down this lane, and then... there's fear sweat, some even hers!

10 years ago

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If only Shooting Star knew just how inconspicuous Silver Fox can be when he chooses to. There isn't much point in putting on his fox form at sea, but he's definitely looking forward to coming ashore and having a good, long, midnight run. The captain herself plans to return to safeguard the ship during the watches of the night, along with Silver Fox for the first half, and Irayo for the second half, so that there are always at least two people on board. However, she doesn't come back on time.

10 years ago

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However, Silver Fox will come ashore only in the dead of night when he will not be seen, or if he is, he will not be recognized because those who frequent the wharves then make it their business to notice as little as possible. "Be inconspicuous!" Shooting Star tells him perhaps a dozen times before she leaves with the first party of her men and women. The women sleep in a communal cabin on deck, and not in the bunks or hammocks in the hold, so Silver Fox has barely seen them, even at meals.

10 years ago