forum The Andromeda (Pirate RP//closed)

Started April 11, 2018 by Deleted user

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Dara crammed a few more candies into her mouth. "Sure, whatever," she shrugged. She paused suddenly, her eyes snapping to the captain's face. "Oh, no. Wait. You don't…are you screwing my brother?"

Joanna swallowed a laugh.

"Screwing your brother?" Leah repeated quickly, almost unsure that she had heard Dara correctly. Though, she was almost sure that she had heard right. "I am not screwing him," she added, crossing her arms over her chest almost protectively, hoping that her face hadn't heated up.

Dara's gaze sharpened even more. "So he's still a virgin? Should have known." She shook her head, still holding eye contact with the captain. "Did you make out with him then? God, no wonder he's lost his mind. He's an idiot around pretty people."

"I didn't make-" Leah started, though immediately cut herself off as she looked towards Dara. How could this girl make her so nervous, so quickly? "Don't we have a tour to continue anyway?" She said, clearing her voice as she tried to keep her cheeks from flushing too much.

"Ohh, you're blushing," she pointed out, finally breaking eye contact. "Sorry if my bluntness makes you uncomfortable. I'm just excited to tease Daso about you." She grinned, grabbing another handful of caramels. "On with the tour!"

Leah spun on her heel, giving Joanna a quick wave as she led Dara away from the kitchen and down the rest of the hall. She shook the thoughts of Dara teasing Daso with this, intent on making sure that her face wasn't still a bit red. "These are some more rooms," she explained, motioning to the right wall of the halls. "These are some of the larger rooms, where we have an infirmary, 'meeting area' and a lab for Kameo. He's currently…hurt, so he won't be using that for a bit." Leah added, turning back towards Dara.

"What happened to him?" she asked, following behind the captain curiously. "How much danger do you guys usually find yourselves in?"

"Well, Kameo actually lost his leg in a jostle with another ship," Leah explained, letting out a small sigh as she thought back towards the fight. "We usually run into other ships or gangs, especially the Crygs. I try not to step off the ship too often either…bright red hair is practically a target." She explained.

"Lost his leg," she repeated with a grimace. "Well, Zanna made her own prosthetic leg, so she could probably help the guy. As for your hair, ever thought of dying it?" She twirled her own, light-brown hair as she spoke.

"I've thought of it, and I'll do it every once in a while if it's absolutely needed," Leah explained with a small shrug, though she had always wished she had brown hair like Dara. Darker hair always seemed a lot nicer, and she had never really liked her own ginger hair anyway. "Though, I would lose my red haired charm, don't you think?" She added with a faint smile, a small joking tone in her voice.

"Red heads are known for their quick tempers and questionable judgment," Dara responded, completely missing the nuance of the joke. "So if you'd like to be taken seriously from the get-go, it might actually be wise to dye your hair. Plus the added bonus of being unrecognizable. I make my own dyes, actually. They don't sell hair dye in Sole."

"You're the logical type, right? All books, no jokes," Leah asked, tilting her head to the side when she realized that Dara had missed the joke. She had suspected it before with the lack of emotion at her own mothers death, though now it seemed to be her personality at this point. Not that it was bad…they needed someone logical on this ship.

"Some jokes," Dara protested, tapping the side of her mouth. "Although, yes, I'd consider myself fairly logical. Daso's always been the emotional one. Makes decisions with his heart. I guess I just decided to be logical to balance him out and keep him from doing stupid things."

"We could use someone logical," Leah answered, nodding to herself as she turned around, beginning to make her way up onto the deck once again. There were quite a lot of jobs on deck, though she decided that if Dara was going to stay, she would be helping with the book smart things. Logic and science.

"You look like you could," Dara agreed. She stepped out onto the main deck, taking a deep breath of the sea breeze. Wow, the sea smelled amazing. It was almost intoxicating. She was starting to understand why Daso stuck with the whole pirate thing.

"Have you ever been on a ship?" Leah asked, a tad curious to see if Dara had ever been beyond Sole. Most people had never been beyond their homes since sea travel was quite expensive, though stowing away was always a possibility. After all, Daso had done that on this ship.

"Me? No way," Dara shook her head, heading towards the edge of the boat and leaning out over the sea. "I'm hardly allowed to leave the house. Ever since Mom died, I've had more freedom, but I still get stopped on the streets because I'm an unaccompanied, unmarried female."

Leah nodded in understanding as Dara spoke, leaning against the wooden edge of the boat as well. When she was growing up, she always had problems with men since she was unmarried at twenty years old, though being on the sea took her away from all of that. "Sailing has always given me some sort of freedom too. It's helped me get away from old memories in the sectors and the problems there. Though, if Daso does decide to let you tag along…I think you'll like it here," Leah explained, brushing a few strands of ginger hair behind her ear as she watched the water.

"I hope he does," she said, her face, for a brief moment, appearing something other than smug. "I want to stay."

Leah nodded in understanding, pausing for a few moments as if she were lost in thought. "Daso would talk about you a lot, you know? How you two grew up in Sole and how he wanted to go back for you," she explained after a few long lapses of silence, referring back to before Daso was almost hung in the sector. "He really cares about you, Dara. I hope he'll let you stay too." She added, realizing that she was warming up to Dara. Sure, maybe they were practically crazy before, though now Leah knew about some of their past.

"Really? Wow," Dara grinned, "I'm more likable than I thought. Alright, well, I'll try my best to be helpful around here."

"You're likable once you open up a bit," Leah answered, a small grin crossing her features as she looked over towards Dara. "You can look around the ship some more while we wait for your brother, or feel free to talk to other crew members," she suggested.

"I think I'll stay out here and wait," she said, squirming a bit. "I don't want to impose. Plus, they're pirates. Not saying there's something inherently wrong with pirates, but I don't really want to be mistaken for an enemy or something."

They ended their storytelling both of them looking back out to the sea. Zanna let out a sigh, "I always knew you would come back."

Cicada chuckled lightly, "I guess I did too. So you know Dara?"

"More like almost acquaintances, we started talking just a few minutes before the ship docked. She's a bit, odd, but in a good way. Like James odd," Zanna said with a slight grin.

Cicada had a light blush remembering talking to her about James for the first time, then she got sad, "Yeah. James odd is a good odd. Wonder if she'll stay."