(I'm back! Let's start back up!)

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"The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air."

(aye aye, Capt'n! )

After what seemed like hourse and hours of hard struggle and labor, the ship calmed and the seas where also calm for them. The ship, after being looked over for inspection, did not take as much damage as most of the crew purposed. Shade, her arm still bleeding and her clothes soaked from the water coming aboard. She looked everywhere for the Captain, but he was no where to be seen. She cursed as she began to pull seaweed from her hair.

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Inigo breathed a sigh of relief. Relief? They were in open, clear waters, yes, but more pressing matters laid ahead. His temples throbbed. "Fezzik, take command" He muttered as he wnet to his quarters to think.

"He's disappearing again?" Shade thought as she went below deck to find some bandages or something for her arm.

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(Guys, I'm going to start playing another charrie- a guy pirate. You can see his bio in the first page.)

Murray met Shade coming down, just as he was going up the soaked and creaky stairs. "It sure be a mess down there," he said, offering a slight grin, and jerking his head towards the water-filled hold. Suddenly his smile faded, and his brow furrowed. "Your arm!" he exclaimed, and then pulled back, not wanting to appear too concerned. "You'll find some bandages in the fo'c'sle."

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Krissa frowned upon the disappearing Montoya, and sighed a bit melodramatically. "Well. Isn't this a regular tea party..." she said sardonically, eying the small damages in the ship. "Dale... do you know what's up with the Cap'n?"

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"The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air."

"Oh...yes, a storm does that too ye, I guess." She shrugged and winced then remembered his second comment and said, "Aye, thank ye much...I'll be need'n some."

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Murray stood awkwardly, and then started up the stairs. You fool, he muttered to himself, you should've lent the girl a hand. He was always so torn, so tormented by his split nature. Part of him knew what to do, and what his proper upbringing demanded him to do. But then, part of him remembered this was a pirate ship... girls were supposed to be treated like equals.

Nevertheless, he shot a fleeting glance over his shoulder at her, just to make sure she was okay.

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"The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air."

Shade walked down the stairs quickly and turned the corner, not noticing the lad looking back at her. She grabbed a lantern from it's hook near the door and lit it. After a while of searching, she found the banages. She grabbed a few and put the lantern away, running back up the stairs to have some sunlight to help her see the wound clearly.

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Dale shrugged. "He has his spells," he explained, "where I suppose he prefers to be alone." Dale's hair was hanging in his eyes and he tossed his head to get it out, grinning at Krissa. "Don't worry."

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Shade leaned against the railing of the boat and tore some of her sleeve off of her injured arm. She laid the sleeve on the ground and wrapped up her arm with the banages. The wound was nasty and deep, a pretty deep gash for such a quick injury. When she finished wrapping her arm, she threw away her sleeve and went to put the banages back up.

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"Shade?" He couldn't help it. Instincts pounded on him to help her... bother all the bloody aristocratic instincts. "Shade, um, what bloody fool thing got you hurt? And um, do you, um, need any..." his voice was drowned away in a exuberent whooping coming from the top of the deck.

"YEEEES, YES, YES!" screamed Krissa, bouncing about the ship ferociously. "Land ahead!!! I see the beach!"

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Shade heard someone call her name as she reached the bottom of the stairs and she turned and skipped back up to see whom. "Oh, 'ello Murray. Well, I was up in the crows nest when-" Then Shade heard the scream and smiled. "Finally!" She muttered.

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Dale rested his elbows calmly on the railing. "Good," he commented. "The ship needed looking-over for repairs."

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Shade nodded to Murray and ran over to the railing happily beside Dale. "As long as their are people on the island. We are low on many things."

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"But should we ask Captain first?" queried Krissa, approaching the group and jerking her head toward the Cap'n's Cabin.

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"No need" Montoya said. He had just exited his cabin. "Make for land. Our ship has been damaged, and she needs repairs." They were still a ways away from where he needed to be, but if thier ship sank, where would he be? "We need to get her tight and sea worthy."