Post by Aromancer on Jan 1, 2021 13:34:59 GMT -5
Caroline Grace - 1
"Gather up all of the crew, time to ship out Binks's brew..."
Caroline Grace laid back in her boat, chugging the last bottle of rum on board the tiny dinghy she'd procured on Sundance Island. The girl was already sloshed, even though it was only 2 pm. And she'd just woken up.
Hey, you can't blame her. She'd been drifting about aimlessly for days on the open sea, forced to flee her home with no navigation abilities, no preparation, nothing! You gonna deny her a bit of enjoyment?
The bottle was emptied in her hands. Grace looked at it, sighed, then chucked it into the sea. Sitting up, she rubbed her eyes and yawned...
And then her eyes flew open.
"Land? Is that land?" She gasped, then cried out in joy, her energy returning to her immediately. "Land! Yes! Ohmygosh! I thought I was gonna die out here! I'm saved!" She grabbed the oars from the side of her dinghy and began rowing furiously towards the shore. It was a scant half hour later that she came ashore, arms somehow numb and burning at the same time from the exertion. She dragged herself onto the shore and whooped for joy.
"WHOO HOO! LAND!!!" She laughed and dashed inland, noting a town up ahead. The girl had not a penny to her name, but that would be fine. She was sure she could find some good-natured soul willing to give a wandering woman food and shelter for just one night. Surely.
Her eager running stopped, however, when she noticed a dock nearby. Moored at said dock was a number of huge ships, all of them waving black flags. Was this... a pirate town?
Well, Grace was technically a pirate too, right? She'd flown under a black flag, so... "Oh Jeez, I flew under a black flag! I'm a pirate now!" She clutched her head, matting her wild red hair unnaturally. "I'm a criminal!"
Somehow, it hadn't occurred to her until this moment. She hyperventilated for a few seconds, but eventually her breathing slowed.
"Oh well!" She said, suddenly chipper again. Might have something to do with how drunk she was. "No regrets! Time for food!" She laughed and headed into town. If she was a pirate, she had nothing to fear from others of her kind!