Becky followed quietly but happily, humming to herself and bouncing lightly as she stepped. She followed her Captain blindly and that was saying a lot considering she lost an eye the day she met Kat. She watched the surrounding areas and picked up pace, her short legs only could move so fast without making any noise. They arrived at an airship, one of few she had ever seen from the ocean floor. She bobbed and leaped on creates and barrels, looking at the outer details of the ship as she marked weak security areas on the hull. She quickly leaped behind her Captain as she entered, clinging to her sleeve and peeking around at the workers.     A little ways in, she saw a door with interesting locks on it. She would have to investigate it after meeting with the fleet queen. She didn't know what type of "seastrider" to expect.. The sirens called pirates seastriders and merchants searunners…. But this was far from a merchant ship.

Today she had the Leve Lesafire with her, a beautiful airship made with plates of Lacriamium so it shined like a diamond up in the sky. It was a one of a kind airship for now and she had constructed it in honor of my mother and named it after one of her little sisters.

“Not to be the bearer of bad news Cap but it looks like you have company,” a lanky Ataiyian man came up to her. He had swirling hair of gold and black, very unlike the pure dark hair of the Ataiyian people.

“Oh, yea? I’ll wait.” She leaned back in her soak as she took her most favorite activity back for herself. “Go entertain the little assholes until I come out.”


The man smiled and chuckled before leaving the captain’s quarters. She was the leader after all. He made his way down the ramp of the airship and looked down at them. “The Captain says that you are welcome aboard the Leve Lesafire while you wait for her to finish her soak. First, though, I must ask your names and your business. Do you seek the Pirate Queen out for her reputation or did you just pick the prettiest airship there was.”

       Out of most the heavy crowds of the city and in the open, clean, nearly empty lower ship halls. Becky followed behind Kat for a few minutes, she had said a few random things in a whisper to Kat as they walked but assumed they were heard. When she had watched for a reaction she didn't even see the usual sign of acknowledgement that her captain showed in most situations. 

        Now that they got in the ship, peacefully and quietly, Becky watched as Kat walked to the waiting area before vanishing into a small repair crew. She had been waiting to break away from line of sight to do her job how she had been taught, now she could. Thinking and memorizing the pathways as she shadowed random crew members and guards, she eventually mapped the entire first and second floor.

         Upon the third floor was what she had assumed was the captains quarters and the 'war room' was right below it, the treasury was through the war room in a guarded hall at the center of the ship. She had done the hardest part already in her opinion, now all she had to do was get in the treasury. She had mapped the course of the guards pathways when they changed posts every three hours and the basic time they kept was on a sundial in the make shift barracks. 

       She waited till the guards began to move then slid behind them, hiding behind the war room's map and chart table and then shifting into the hall. Using her basic lock pick on the lower lock of the puzzle lock and her dagger on the upper lock, she jammed the cubes magic flow and froze the inner circle of it. Shattering the circle with a small hammer in her kit she cracked the door open and slid inside while popping her tools out of the cube and shutting the door behind her. The cube didn't trigger a full ship alarm as she thought it may have, but it would repair it's lock and lock her in if she was still in the treasury a few hours after the magic rebalanced. 

        She looked around before realizing how ugly the treasury looked…. Everything was out of place and thrown around as if there was an entire war in just this room. She caught herself cleaning it instead of counting before she could blink a few times.