(It's either a 'coast guard' of sorts, or an Exile ship.)

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Tynel nodded,

"One would think so. But mabye they are Exiles. I say we wait until we see some form of identification before we prepare to fight." He then looked back to everyone else, who were now alert and ready to draw their weapons, and Dalen was standing straight at the wheel, steadily looking over the horizon,

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Laying one slender hand on her sword hilt, Raven looked towards the now-visible ship, and realized with a muffled oath that they were of the Exiles' coast guard, very unforgiving when it came to enemy ships, or anything that even resembled an enemy ship. "This is definitely not good.."

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Thyiri seemed to have produced a knife from somewhere on her person, and flicked it through her hands restlessly. She looked tense, almost ready to spring - but just as ready to stuff that knife back in her belt as though it had never been.

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Tynel unsheathed his two hooked knives, and stood tall and striaght, with an intiminating glint in his eyes. He looked at the ship that approached with a mindset of determination. He would get to his homeland and find out about himself and his parents. If it was the last thing he ever did, he was going to find out who in the world he was.

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Violet eyes narrowed, Raven looked at Tynel sharply, noting his weapons. "Put them away, they'll do you no good, unless you want to be a pincushion!" she hissed, moving her own hands away from her weapons. She had had run-ins with the 'coast guard' before, and had heard other stories..and drawing weapons would just bring on a preliminary attack.

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Tynel slowly nodded and put away his weapons. He did not want to make this situation worse.

"Why?!" Tynel still had an unusuall glint in his eyes and his voice bore an edge that he did not fully intend. He then tried to soften his expresion.

"I'm sorry. I just - I have gotten this far, and I-I really really want to know who in the blazes I am. And who my parents were." He looked at the capital, now seemingly only about 60 miles away. "And now as I can see my goal I am being stopped."

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"I ensure you, you will find that out." she said in an undertone, turning her head to look towards the Exiles' ship again. "No matter what it takes to get you to the Capital safely." she added, more to herself than to him. Her sense of duty and responsibility for everyone else on the ship was back with a vengeance..

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Dalen saw the ship coming and spun the wheel, bringing their commandeered prize around to sail towards them. "We're going to let them board us, okay?" Dalen hollered across the deck, wondering how happy they were going to be with that. "Don't give them any cause to be suspicious of us, and we'll be fine," he said. "Besides, they probably know me. I'll have to talk to their captain, but we should do okay." It didn't seem to do anything to calm the others' nerves. Why me? he asked himself, rolling his eyes. The way the others were so jittery, any half-trained coast guard crewman would sense someting was unusual about the ship, and then they'd all get arrested, stuck until he could find a way out. He sighed again, and hoped for the best.

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Tynel seemed a bit surprised by Dalens decision, but he had gotten them this far, through the reefs, past numerous rocks, he even pointed them in the right direction. And besides, It wasnt like Ty had a better idea.

He then looked around at the rest of the crew, they wernt so calm. Then he looked at Dalen, who looked almost completely calm. Tynel vagely wondered if he had ever been in a situation like this before, but did not let the thought stay in his mind.

"Raven, do you know enough about these... coast guards of sorts to know if they will suspect anyone on the ship?"

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Thyiri's knife had disappeared and she leant against the railing, the picture of assertive confidence. "Stay calm," she reiterated to the rather jittery Tynel. "Do you want them to suspect something?"

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Dalen snorted when he saw that Tynel looked surprised. It wasn't as if they could elude a Coast Guard vessel and then make it in to port and not be arrested. "Get ready!"he hollered.

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Tynel looked in Thyiri's direction,

"Well no, but we have around 5 different people from about 3 different nationalities, on one bo--ship his attention was then turned to Dalen when he yelled for them to get ready. Ty sighed. Yes, he would be ready, he knew Dalen would be ready, Raven seemed quite ready also, but Thyiri seemed a bit nervous, although Tynel could barley catch every once and a while, he could see Thyiri shake ever so slightly. He briefly wondered how highly trained to notice such things the coast guards were, but every time he thought about it, he always got to the picture of another shipwreack littering the sea floor. Tynel shuddered. They had to get to the capital.

((Ok... unless someone wants to prolong this suspense, could someone please try to get the coast guard onto the ship or something? I could do it, but it may not be as good as it could. (hey, that rhyms!) ))

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Thyiri shot Tynel a very eloquent look and leaned nonchalantly against the railing, trying very hard to look completely unconcerned.

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((Helloooo... I think it is dying. ))

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((^ I posted last! It's someone else's turn...))

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