The Sea Cow

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Lord Harlaw's galley, named after his heavyweight of a mother.

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Aranya came out of her cabin on the third day, unable to stand being cooped up in those quarters. Even the risk of having to talk to that vile Harlaw was not enough to keep her out. She smelled the sea air and thought deeply on the matters at hand, feeling her mind refreshing itself.

[Fel]

Felryn scowled at the insufferable Aranya when she came up, but otherwise continued to ignore her as he went about with the duties aboard the ship.

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Aranya steadfastly refused to look his way, but it was very hard to be unaware of his presence on deck. His voice made her tingle. Even when she didn't hear him shouting at his men, she was intensely conscious that he was there.

"Fair weather today," she remarked to a sailor on hand, trying to distract herself from her own thoughts.

[Fel]

The sailor was about to respond but then seemed to remember something, and walked away from her.

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Aranya gritted her teeth. Her three knights had mingled quite well, but that infuriating bastard wanted to make things difficult for her, did he? Aranya considering knifing him. She could sense him at the other end, starboard or whatever they called it. It would be so easy to stab him, or push him over the rail...Aranya grinned to herself at the thought.

She was feeling restless and took out her dagger, sawing at the wooden rail to vent her frustration. The murders, the poisoner, the fucking Harlaw son of a bitch...

[Fel]

Felryn quickly notices her sawing at the rail, it seems he has been watching her more closely than he let on. He strides up beside her and grabs her hand with the dagger in it and lifts it up.

"What are you doing, you mad woman? Is it your moonblood that causes this random act of destruction or is this just the usual stupidity I'll have to expect from you on this journey?"

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"I was improving your ship," Aranya said innocently.

[Fel]

Felryn growled annoyed at her, "Do I have to confine you to your cabin, mountain girl?"

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"Try, iron man." Aranya said sweetly, her eyes glinting. "If it really is iron."

[Fel]

Felryn glared angrily, grabbing Aranya by the arm and forcibly pulling her away from the rail towards the hole leading below deck.

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Aranya hissed in outrage and tried to twist out of his grip, kicking him when her arms were locked. "Fuck you," she snarled. "I didn't...let go of me!"

[Fel]

Felryn held her as tightly as possible ans used all his strength to drag her along struggling and fighting. He kicked open the trapdoor leading below and heaved Aranya down it. She fell with a satisfyingly loud crash. He jumped down after her before she could recover from the fall and hoisted her onto her feet.

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Aranya cursed him as he threw her down the trapdoor, grunting when she hit the bottom hard. Fucking bastard! She glared at him, ready to pounce and hit him, but her body didn't have time to recover before he leaped down after her.

When he hoisted her to her feet, she flew at him. She was turned on by his strength and yet determined to punish him for using it on her.

[Fel]

Felryn was knocked back against the wall of the thin corridor below deck, hitting it with a thud and grunt. Something inside him became extremely excited at the prospect of fighting her, and he grinned eagerly as he threw a kick into her side in response.