~Aiyenna's Island in Ruins~ ((Semi-lit ~ Always Accepting))

[Wildmagic_warrior]

"It's not that you frighten me," replied Fitch, shrugging but still holding the mop. "You're just... strange. And I don't mean to be rude, but it's true. Also, you're in a nightgown. I'm not supposed to see women in their nightgowns." He blushed a bit and looked at his feet. "It's ungentlemanly and very rude." The last bit sounded distinctly like he was quoting someone else, probably his mother.

Looking back up at the princess, Fitch finished, "I have to mop the floor. Cleaning up is kind of my job, and this is... well, it's a lot of blood. Somebody got crushed by the cannon chains again, I'll bet. Happened on the last voyage, too. Except there were bits and pieces that time." He was about to describe how he'd had to pry an ear from between two floorboards when he realized that he shouldn't say something so grotesque in front of royalty.

[Vanendra]

"Yeah, sorry about my nightgown, its the only clean thing I had left to wear...But I have to say, if you can deal with cleaning up messes that involve detatched body parts you must be even braver than me." The princess ggave a fake shudder, "I couldn't imagine what that must've been like." She stood up and walked back to her doorway,"I'll stay out of your hair now so you can clean. I wouldn't want to get you introuble for not doing your job...But if a panther comes down here, please come get me." Vanendra insisted, getting ready to shut her door.

[Wildmagic_warrior]

Putting mop to floor again, Fitch said to the princess, "There aren't any panthers on the ship, your highness. Just tigers and foxes, like me." He paused, taking one of his buckets of water and sloshing it onto the floor as he thought. "No, wait, that's a lie. Neil is a bear." Fitch swashed the mop around on the floor for a little while, scrubbing at the half-dried blood before shunting into off into flukes that would drip it out into the ocean. "And there's a man and his wife, Cheshire, I think. He's a bear, so is Muriel. Grizzlies, from the mountains. I heard Cheshire talking about it once. They're real nice." The boy kept working as he talked, glad to have someone to chat to. Even if she was royalty, there was nothing wrong with a little gossip. "They take kids under their wing, make sure we get enough to eat. I think it's because they lost their little girl a couple of years ago. Some disease or other. Neil and Cheshire were friends from when Neil was little; he sure seemed happy to see them again." Fitch paused, flicking bloody filth from one leather shoe. "I don't suppose you know what Neil looks like? He's a bit older than you, big shoulders? Looks like a bear, even when he's human. He's the carpenter on the ship. Really nice, and a complete gentleman. One time he held a door for Scarlette and she broke three of his fingers."

[Saeli]

Ali tisked at him, shaking her head. "Come now Nio, what makes you think I'd teach you all my tricks?" Ali asked, inching towards him until she was just a tiny ways away. She had to tilt her head back to look up at him, since she was unfortunately short compared to Nio, and most other people for that matter. But she winked at him in a sly manner, wiggling the hand he had clasped in his a little teasingly.

((Guys, Wowhow pmed me today to say that they quit because they do not have time for this RP. Queen spot is now open in the Lion kingdom.))


"Some people do things unknowingly that they never meant to do," Nio said tilting his own head down slightly as Ali was now to close for him to keep it up straight. Nio's right eyebrow rose at her wink and his free hand rose to rest on her shoulder. "Which leads me to believe I know more about you than you think," Nio continued his sentence in a delayed manner.

[~Erica~]

"Mm, is that so? Well then I should also know more about you so where does that put us?" Ali asked, raising an eyebrow at him. Ali glanced at the hand on her shoulder for a second, and then back up at Nio. It was her move, but she wanted to see what he was going to do. She'd almost forgotten what all this had started about, threatening to cut his toes off.

[Saeli]

Nio's mouth opened and barely started to form a word before it closed again. For once the bear was at a loss for words and he stared at Ali. He just stared at her for a few seconds before he opened his mouth to reply, "Wherever you think it puts, cap'n', you are the leader after all."

[god-and-angels]

Shaily shivered, getting cold all of a sudden. She wrapped her arms around her self and grabbed her book her back to the room she was assigned. As she quietly slipped into her room, she threw her book in the corner of the room. Yawning she rubbed her eyes and looked around, her eyes adjusting quickly.

[~Erica~]

Ali smirked, he was speechless, that was a surprise. Absolutly not what she had expected from Nio, but it was a pleasing reaction. "Exactly, and I think that means its time for us to go to bed. We've got to get an early start of it tomorrow so now it's time to rest." She pulled away from Nio, and sheathed her dagger, glancing back at him as she headed towards the door.

[Saeli]

Nio saw her smirk and was almost humiliated. He knew what she must have been thinking about his speechlessness. "Aye, you sleep well, Ali," Nio muttered quietly as she pulled away from him. His hands hovered in the air a moment before he let them both fall to his side and watched her walk away. When Ali turned to look at him offered a friendly half smile, "Forget somethin', miss?"

[~Erica~]

Ali smiled at him as she paused, this time it was a real one, surprisingly warm and friendly for someone so hard. "No, goodnight Nio, sleep well." And with that she slid quietly out the door, moving up the hallway to her own room next door. She paused with a frown, something felt wrong here. She stopped, pressing her ear to the doorway, listening carefully. There was a soft creak of a footstep, and then a long pause before another one. Someone else was in her room.

{I think I may use Nio in my story since that was okay, but I'm just going to change the spelling a tiny bit. I have a bunch of ideas running through my head for this now ^^. Oh and what color are Nio's eyes?
Edit: chapter four is up now}