3rd Wave

[tentacruelest]

[Jones is a deep, deep sleeper but he wakes with the sunrise. Each day is a new, hellish experience on the Barge but he scowls and stomps his way through them regardless.

Imagine his surprise when this morning he opens his door - releasing a small flood of his usual seawater, which, thanks to Maintenance, is contained by a make-shift dam - and spots children running about.

Not the handful of children he knows to be part of the Barge. New ones. And smaller people are easier to bully than full-grown ones.

Resolving to go about his day unbothered by the mechanics of the Admiral, Davy instead storms his way to the mess hall, literally using his claw to forcefully swat aside anyone smaller than four feet]


I'll thank whoever remains their true, full size to keep the vast majority of whelps under control. I've a mind to toss them over the side one by one; no ship is in need of this many cabin boys. No navy is.

Mind your brats. Or I will.

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[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

You're being stupid again.

[fuckvelvet]

Old, dead, and boring.

[tentacruelest]

You listen to me, woman..

[Jones limps his way over to Beatrix; not to hurt, but to rant at, dripping seawater across the deck as he goes]

Every day on this ship drifts into another! It is a purgatory the likes of which I can scarce imagine, hour after hour of inanity and servitude and imprisonment! When I tell yeh that putting me in your Level Zero or running me through will make no difference, know it to be true! And when I say that running an upstart brat through with a sword or tossing him over the side would only bring a single spark of satisfaction before returning to the torturous drudgery that's become my existence, take me at my word as well! It is not out of cruelty, although that would be reason enough; it is to break the monotony, to force this Admiral to place me off his ship, to do something to show that you will still have to fight tooth and nail to control me, even as I lose time and time again!

[tentacruelest]

I'm only taking you at the word you've given me.

[tentacruelest]

Yes; so off, find someone more interesting and involved and with more patience to listen to you prattle on.

[megamind]

Apparently not enough time to learn respect, or kindness, or compassion or-- anything else! If you want consequences, then you'll have them.

[fuckvelvet]

Fine.

I'll come back to you later. When you're less boring.

[tentacruelest]

It was respect, kindness, and compassion that turned me into the creature I am today! Do not think to lecture me about the virtues of humanity, because I have SEEN where they lead.

[tentacruelest]

How fortuitous.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Ladies don't get to be knights, or have adventures, or get revenge. They marry princes and lords and have babies.

If that's what a lady is, then I'm not going to be one. I have a sword, and that's all that really matters.

[runslikethewind]

Are you saying that the dragons didn't fight back in force? [Because that is the only thing that makes sense, even though it doesn't really.]

[tentacruelest]

You're a girl and a wench. It's a different thing from a lady.

[tentacruelest]

They may have, in their own time. Before mine.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

I'm a Stark. I was going to be a lady.

What's the difference between a girl and a wench?

[runslikethewind]

Dragons are powerful, magical beings. They wield the very powers of Creation and Destruction. I just don't see how, if they were threatened, they could be taken down by mere mortals.

[with_my_teacup]

And one of my dearest friends spent an equal amount of time recovering from the death toll, and what did it avail any of us?

[tentacruelest]

Not a fair amount. Yeh wouldn't call a lady a wench.

[tentacruelest]

You're speaking of gods, not dragons. Dragons have little cosmic power.

[deadliestviper]

[Beatrix senses this, and has the respect for Jones (whatever he is) to stay in place. And she listens. Her hand twitches; part of her is tempted to draw her sword and slice him through before he even realizes it's unsheathed, but she holds back. It isn't time, not yet.]

The Admiral will only see a murder as a sign that you belong here for even longer than he first imagined. If you want to fight and lose more battles, you can do that infinitely here.

Talk to me about imprisonment and inanity when you've spent a year in this hellhole.

[tentacruelest]

It told me that you care little for justice on this ship.

[tentacruelest]

This 'hellhole' is only the extension of a longer, equally terrible situation. And it has been far longer than a year.

[fearcutsdeeperthanswords]

Then what makes a wench a wench?

[surfaceshine]

[For a moment, Dean is shocked into absolute silence, dumbstruck.

Then his face gets very red.]

You don't know what you're talking about, you asshole.

[tentacruelest]

Pirate girls tend towards wenches. Peasant ones, too. They're the ones who'd take insult at being called ladies.

[runslikethewind]

No, I'm not. Dragons have a great deal of cosmic power. It was granted to them by the Titans.