Daggerfish

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"Drink," Rolf said, lifting a wineskin to his lips. "It'll help with the pain."

[Flex]

Darien sipped slowly from the skin, the wine feeling like fire in his throat; however, it did help with the pain. After a while the dizzyness went away, but he still couldn't move without whincing with pain. "Rolf, could you... find Yozs for me?"

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Rolf glanced quickly between Asha and Darien, and nodded, his face a discreet mask. "I'll get him." He clapped Darien on the shoulder - albeit gently - and left.

[The Stranger]

Asha sat on the bed, which made Darien wince again, as she patted his forehead with a wet cloth.

"Catch a fever, and I will fucking gut you." She said, followed by,

"You really fought about me?" She said, her voice raising.

[Flex]

Darien smiled again before replying. "Yes, I suppose I did... I thought it was for the practical purposes of... hiring you but it seems like... other reasons..." He didn't know how to voice what he was feeling. He ought to be ashamed, thinking about a woman like this when only recently Maggie had been murdered... but who was she compared to this woman? No one. "I would say... you were definately worth fighting for, Asha."

[The Stranger]

"I'll fight for myself next time thank you very much." She said. "But perhaps your worth fighting... beside. For a Greenlander. Fuck this Aranya bitch, I don't know her. But if you fight for her, well than I'll fight with you. If you want. Assuming you don't fucking die." She added as an after thought.

[Flex]

"That is good to hear... I hardly know the lady Royce myself, but she is my sister... and family has to stick together." His smile however faded at her last comment and he sighed. "Don't think I'll go down so easy..." His vision turned blurry and with that he fell into a deep and dark sleep.

[Flex]

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After a week of resting, the wound had mostly healed and Darien was able to walk again. He went on deck and strode towards a man who was scrubbing the deck. "Where might I find the new lord Sparr? I have some questiones for him."

[The Stranger]

The man looked at Darien as though he was going to say something, but than simply pointed, where a man was yelling orders to men raising a sail.

"I see you're alive, more's the pity." the man said, by way of greeting.

[Flex]

Darien merely grunted at the man he has asked and walked over to the new lord.

He smiled at the man's comment before replying. "Perhaps it is, but without me you wouldn't find yourself a lord. Now, where are dead Sparr's things? I believe they rightfully belong to me."

Somehow the previous events had given Darien confidence, more than he had had before. Where he would have approached politely and carefully before, he now felt purely reckless.

[The Stranger]

"My bitch of a sister picked them up for you you idiot, go ask her where your things are, I'm not your nurse maid."

[Flex]

Darien was surprised by this; He had figured Asha would have been the last person to let him have her dead brother's things. "Well, where might I find her?"

[The Stranger]

He shrugged. "Keep track of your own damn woman." He said, turning his back on Darien.

"Get that cursed sail up or I'll take flesh off your back!" he yelled to a crewmember struggling with raising the sail.

[Flex]

Darien sighed before making his way to the Dead-eyed Fish, the one place where he expected Asha to be.

[Flex]

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Darien arrived at the Daggerfish and approached a man who was spear fishing off the side. "You there, I've come for Asha Sparr's things." He knew these men were blunt and so he thought to treat them just the same. "Where would her cabin be?"