Post by Jade on Jul 18, 2021 21:57:55 GMT -5
Holly had raised her finger and was just about to open her mouth to correct Lea's new incorrect interpretation of what a "bounty" was, but after a moment of eye contact with Sayuri that said "it's just not worth it", she kept her mouth shut and dropped both the finger and the point.
Rather than backing Lea up on the point of having her authority undermined, Harley was just trying to put two and two together. "So... Fighting the Marines right now would be bad, because then Guy won't be able to get us a new, better ship. Which means we'd still be using this one, which would be bad because it's very cramped...""And won't survive the actually dangerous conditions in the Grand Line, because we can't coast on luck forever."
The moving mountain chewed on that for a second to see if a counter-argument arose, but after a moment, she just sighed. "Uuuuuuuuugh, fiiiiiiine. No fighting, for now. But if they come after us, I'm gonna put their asses six feet under, alright?"
At the swear, Sayuri looked over at Holly out of the corner of her eye - but the girl seemed unfazed, so the swordswoman returned her attention to her ridiculous captain. "... Okay? Sure, that's fine. Wait, are you trying to bargain with me-"
"Hell yeah!" Harley cracked her knuckles, and then walked over toward the dock and gave a hearty push against it, snapping the rope Sayuri had been walking toward to untie and sending the Whiskey Runner careening away from the structure. "C'mon Lea, no more complaining! We're gonna be hiding out in this big forest, and you know what that means, yeah? It means we're going camping!"
As the boat sailed off from the dock, Harley rattled off all the cool camping activities she could think of - building a bonfire, ghost stories, bear wrestling, roasting stuff over the fire, and more! - all while remaining pretty much oblivious to Sayuri rushing about the boat, working on steering them out of the harbor safely. Before ten minutes had passed, they were gone, leaving Guy's house boat behind with a note on the door to inform the poor carpenter that they'd meet up with him later...
The black-haired swordswoman stepped down onto the rocky beach, and cast her gaze on the waters behind them, as if Marine ships would have materialized on the horizon since she'd last checked ten seconds ago. Harley dropped down next to her and only just caught herself before she slipped on the rocks underfoot.
Just past the beach was the forest. Thinner, smaller trees lined the edge, but even those made Harley look small. "Bring the ship inland. We can't leave it here where someone could see it," Sayuri commanded, and then walked out of the surf toward the woods.
"So..." Holly peeked down over the railing. "How are you going to get the boat out of the water?"
Harley grinned but offered no explanation; instead, she walked around to the back of the boat, put her shoulder against it, and pushed. After a moment, the Whiskey Runner started to move forward, grindingly slow at first but quickly picked up the pace as it left the water fully.