Silver Fox Learns Starboard ~ by SaralynArati

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10 years ago

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However, all those are concerns of the future. First Silver Fox must get someone to take him seriously as a sailor and hire him. In just a few days, someone does; not just anyone, because Silver Fox is picky, but a fairly prosperous looking mercantile captain. What he gets to exhibit mainly during his brief stay on this ship are his deck swabbing skills. But the merchant has been laying on extra men to fortify the vessel for a trip through pirate infested waters. And indeed, he is attacked.

10 years ago

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The waters of the Archipelago support this woman well, for they teem with ordinary pirates. It is easier to take from the top, than glean from the bottom, if you can get away with it. And the current government is not doing well either suppressing or punishing piracy; it is a bicameral system, with a man from one main island ethnicity married to a woman from the other. Rumor whispers that they hate each other, and take every opportunity to ensure that the other is able to accomplish nothing.

10 years ago

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This is exactly the sort of woman he would like to meet, and perhaps get to know extremely well. Silver Fox's sister hinted that true love was a possibility for him on this trip, but with the caution that foretellings are always uncertain. Unfortunately, Shooting Star does not take on new crew. Her men, and it is reputed even some other women, remain remarkably healthy, and she would rather pay to have a trusted comrade healed than take chances hiring, as she is wanted by both law and pirate.

10 years ago

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With every change of conveyances, Silver Fox does away with a few more of his wealthier looking clothes, so by the time he arrives at the base of the Archipelago, he is traversing the docks, looking for work as a deckhand, in what appears to be a nightshirt and a short robe over his pants. The young man does look rather like his pockets, if he has any, are empty. And yet he's thrilled. On the way south, he's heard of a female pirate captain, who preys on other pirates, named Shooting Star.

10 years ago

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So, when the newlyweds invite him to accompany them part way, Silver Fox reluctantly accepts, journeying east to the ocean and then south, hopefully by water, along the coast. On the southbound portion of his travels, he does indeed get shuttled from one craft to the next, learning as he goes: starboard from port, what a belaying pin is, how to trim a sail and when to do it, and other useful nautical information. Silver Fox is pleased to discover that he is a natural seaman, and climbs well.

10 years ago