A Festive Farewell: Between Friends or Family?

[Bobbie]

Her teeth clenched once more, the treasure huntress was filled with rage as she felt herself pushed over the edge by Namkhai who called her his little monkey. While her temper was always present, containing it was all the more difficult while under the influence of the delicious nectar that recently filled her cup. Despite asking her question and wishing to move on with the game, she simply couldn't let Namkhai's comment go and was completely oblivious to a response that Sigrid began to offer. 

Rising to her feet after Namkhai, she grabbed the nearly empty bottle from the table, thankfully not the one home brewed by Namkhai himself. With little thought put into her actions, she squeezed it in her grip and suddenly hurled it at the man whose back would be turned to her.

“I am not your little monkey!” she yelled at him from behind, but Beast’s voice was one that she certainly couldn’t ignore and her attention was soon diverted. Hearing the beloved furball prompt her to pick truth or dare, she turned to look at her, trying her best to soften the scowl that had just been directed at the blonde titan just moments earlier.

“Dare.” She gave her immediate answer, steering clear of truth questions as much as she possibly could to avoid nosy prodding at what she thought of people on this ship or what she saw in Rosalina.

Her frustration vented, the bottle thrown and her hands now emptied, she drunkenly fell into her chair again and waited for whatever dare Beast would give her. She had been wrong in her assumptions about the other members playing the game, but surely Beast wouldn’t have any wild dares to offer… she was too innocent and adorable, and her main hobbies seemed to lie in playing tug, chasing ducks, and receiving attention - which there was always plenty of for her.

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #31

Happy with himself and satisfied, the Titan headed back to his post unaware of what was happening behind his back. And while he had more than enough friends on the ship to warn him, most of them were currently focused on something else so the first and only warning was Danielle´s furious scream followed by glass shattering over his head.
“What the…”
He cursed as the force of impact make him stumble, but as he regained his balance, the Titan turned back to Danielle, wiping out wine and shards from his hair. Than he started laughing from the top of his lungs, spreading it among the rest of their crew.
“Serves you right dude! Don´t you know she is taken!?”
Niko exclaimed between fits of laughter, while Hariyama was choking on a piece of burger, until Sigrid helped him with well-placed hit.
“Thanks!”
He grinned, watering his throat with a long sip of beer.
“But I have to say it´s really cute, little monkey for big gorilla.”
Whispered Sigrid to Hayden, lowering her voice to avoid her anger.
Meanwhile down on the deck Beast joined the laughter, although she seemed to be rather oblivious to what was the reason for it. Wasn´t throwing things on other people bad? Confused, she looked around, but since everyone looked to be in a good mood and Namkhai wasn´t hurt, the fluffy wonder focused back forward on her blonde friend.
“I dare you..”
She started, eager to ask for a belly rub, but than she realised she actually wanted something else. Truth to be told, she wouldn´t realise it if not for that thrown bottle as it attracted her attention towards Namkhai, person, who got something from Danielle she never got.
“I dare you to play…train with me like you did with dad and Namkhai earlier!”
She said proudly, wagging her tail left and right.

[Bobbie]

Danielle stifled a laugh when the bottle crashed on Namkhai’s head, slightly surprised that she hit her target. When he also found it funny, however, her own laughs died down as that seemed to make it less funny.

Instead, she now focussed on Beast and raised her brow. Catching onto the word ‘play’ which the malamute first said, before correcting herself and rephrasing that to ‘train’, the treasure huntress smiled and stood again with a tired groan.

“Alright! Come here, you giant fluffy beast!” She shouted, considering her pun to be the cleverest thing imaginable, despite it being the least imaginative thing anybody could have said. Waiting for Beast to move away from the Professor to a safer and more open position, Danielle also moved out to the centre of the deck where she thought the table and other players were safe.

While, of course, she had no intention of hurting the beautiful doggo in any way, she charged at her with all her speed and strength, which, in her current state, was not very impressive. With her eye on the prize, Danielle lunged at the fluffy creature as the aim was to tackle Beast and then snuggle her way to victory on the floor of the deck.

Hayden couldn’t help giggling at Sigrid’s words, implying that they really made the perfect couple. “She really is like a monkey though, isn’t she? She's got soft monkey hands...” He replied, perhaps more amused than he should be by this, especially considering they were identical twins. Before long, his cup was empty and he watched Danielle and Beast.

“I feel like there should be some sort of referee, don’t you think? Maybe Hariyama?” He suggested, waiting to see the most obvious fact about his sister in action - no matter how much she loved Rosalina, there was no universe where Beast did not own Danielle's heart.

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #32

Sigrid paused for a moment as she was thinking about what he just said, before poking her favourite human into the cheek.
“Does that mean you have soft monkey hands too, since you are twins and everything? Because if yes, there is a sore spot on my back that would need their help.”
She teased him, before looking down at the two wrestlers.
“Nah, they will be alright. Beast is a bit clumsy but she wouldn´t hurt Danielle.”
The giantess says it in a way that clearly suggested that she expected the giant malamute to win and Gabriel, who was sitting close to her had to agree with her. Because while technically speaking the treasure huntress was indeed stronger, she was also drunk and highly inexperienced in ground fighting, which was Beast´s forte thanks to her frequent wrestling with Namkhai.
“WOOF!”
Forgetting for a moment that she could speak, Beast rushed behind Danielle so happy, that she completely overlooked her lunge and slammed into the treasure huntress with the combination of her full strength and impressive weight in an attempt to knock her under herself, where she could lie down on her and declare herself the winner.
“Hey guys am I the only one who think Danielle isn´t really trying hard enough in this?”
Asked Hariyama out of sudden, taking another sip from his mug, finally catching up to the level of drunkenness of everyone else except Beast.
“Yeah, you are right!”
Nodded Niko,
“What about some motivation!?”
Overhearing their debate, Gabriel nodded, rising his voice to cheer her up.
“You are my puppy! You can do it?”
Looking at him in faked disbelief, Namkhai laughed.
“And which one was you cheering for?”
Niko nodded.
“Yeah it has to be something…something bigger! Hey I have idea! If Danielle loses this, her official nickname on the ship will be MONKEY!”
The tribal warrior erupted into laughter followed by Sigrid and Hariyama.

[Bobbie]

Hayden felt incredibly stupid for a moment, but he soon laughed about it, glancing at Sigrid for a moment and then turning back to watch the wrestling match between woman and doggo. “Maybe, but I’m not a good climber… sorry.”

As Beast rammed into her opponent, Danielle hit the deck with a rolling thud, almost instantly buried under a huge mass of fur. Underneath Beast was not the worst place to be, buried under such a snuggly ball of fluff, and the dog-lover was sure she could just drift away to sleep while under there. Closing her eye with a content smile, she was ready to admit defeat and succumb to the warmth provided by the dog's coat. The cheers from the crowd were largely ignored by her until Niko shouted his own form of motivation.

Immediately Danielle was fuelled with enough adrenaline to give her a slight burst in strength, wriggling out from underneath Beast.

“Hell, no!” she protested, crawling out and then climbing on top of Beast instead. “I will not be called monkey by anyone!” As she snapped, she put more strength and effort into her attempts, as Hariyama was quite right to say that she wasn’t really trying very hard. That said, being drunk did make this twice as difficult as a lot of her movements came across as fumbling.

Spreading her limbs, she tried her best to anchor herself and hold the malamute down onto the wooden surface of the ship, determined to win and escape the embarrassment and humiliation of such a nickname. Tensing her body, Danielle made herself as rigid as she possibly could to increase her stability, a trick that seemed to work on Namkhai, but the problem was that Beast was so large that both her hands and her feet couldn’t reach the floor with Beast between her and it. 

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #33

Watching as Danielle disappeared under the endless sea of fluff, Gabriel had to deal with an emotion he didn´t experienced very often, jealousy. Not that he would have problems with someone else snuggling his doggo, but he was simply so tired and sleepy, that he wished nothing more, than to snuggle that oversized fluffy doggo pillow and fall asleep.
Imagining, that that was pretty much what Danielle was doing right now, he sighed and looked around for anything else to snuggle. Eponine seemed like a tempting target, but before he could move a muscle, the treasure huntress darted from under Beast, surprising that goofy furball enough for her to let Danielle to take her.
“How…?”
The Professor muttered for himself, pretty sure that he wouldn´t be able to muster the strength to do so, even if they wanted to call him monkey because of that.
Unfortunately for Danielle, Beast wasn´t someone who would give up so easily, and so she struggled against the blonde´s attempt to bring her down, running and jumping around like a bull during a rodeo.
“Nice, HOLD TIGHT!”
Namkhai cheered impressed by Danielle´s tenacity.
Refusing to lose, Beast decided to roll over in an attempt to get Danielle down, but her paw got trapped in a bunch of ropes near the main mast and she tripped, finding herself underneath Danielle instead.
“What the..”
Niko muttered, his jaw dropped and he wasn´t the only one surprised.
“Angel…she is an angel!”
Whisppered Eponine, emptying her glass in one go. No one could be really surprised by her reaction the ground wasn´t hit by doggo, but especially tall woman in her early twenties, with pale skin and long golden hair, dressed in white, that was glowing with pleasantly warm aura of white light.
“Well, that definitely explain why she can talk now…”
Muttered Sigrid.

[Bobbie]

Beast put up a very good struggle against Danielle’s attempt as the blonde tried to hold on for the sweet victory that was so close. The giant malamute jumped and bucked, nearly throwing Danielle off her back several times, had she not been able to grab onto tufts of the animal’s thick fur like reigns.

Her eye wide, the treasure huntress rode on the back of the ruthless beast that was trying everything to get her off all over the deck. Just as she was sure she was about to lose, however, Beast appeared to stumble and suddenly fall over. They both rolled once, but Beast ended up underneath her opponent at last.

Out of breath and exhausted, Danielle sat on top of Beast, one leg on either side of her, with both arms raised up and her hands high in the air.

“YES!” She hollered with a wide victorious grin on her face. “I WIN!” Looking at Niko, she laughed, “You don’t get to call me monkey after all!” Danielle crossed her arms with a smug look on her face. “I bet you weren’t expecting-”

It was at this moment that the victor realised that something didn’t feel quite right. Where was all the soft fluffy cushioning beneath her? How did Danielle’s knees reach the floor whereas earlier neither of her hands or feet could do so while she was on top of Beast? Falling silent, she looked down at Beast, feeling an incredible warmth emanating from her as the animal was suddenly a human.

Aware of how this probably looked and shocked by this turn of events, Danielle’s face turned red as she suddenly rose to her feet, hurriedly moved away from Beast, then fell backwards on her rear as she tripped in her own feet.

“What the…!? Beast?” Staring at the woman with long golden hair, Danielle couldn’t believe it. Had Sigrid not also said something, she’d have thought that she was imagining it all.

“Is this… Beast, your devil fruit!” the realisation hit her like an epiphany, exaggerated in her drunken state as she made a loud gasping sound. “HER DEVIL FRUIT TURNED HER INTO A GOLDEN RETRIEVER!”

Danielle’s exclamation warranted loud laughter from her brother, who seemed to have also had too much to drink. “Golden… Retriever!” he continued to laugh hysterically, wiping tears away. “Because her hair is… gold! And she's a dog! Except she's not!”

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #34

The doggo was probably the most confused one of all, blinking in surprise as Danielle´s previously victorious face turned red, before she jumped back as if she saw a poisonous snake.
“What? I am no…!”
She tried to jump on her feet, protesting against being called golden retriever, but since she had arms where she expected another pair of feet, she planted her face directly in the deck.
“Ouch…”
She whined, realising the hard way, that she now lacked the cushion previously provided by her fur.
“Are you alright?”
Alarmed by his puppy´s fall, Gabriel rushed to her side, with wobbly legs, almost falling twice, before reaching her.
“Are you alright?”
He repeated her question, kneeling down next to Beast, looking surprisingly unfazed by her transformation, either because fear for her health took priority, or simply because that in his mind puppy was simply puppy no matter her form.
“No, I am not…”
The glowing blonde sobbed, snuggling in his embrace.
“Danielle was mean to me. She called me golden retriever even when she knows I am a malamute and then I…KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
Distinctively girly and painfully loud scream pierced through his ears as Beast finally realised what happened.
“What happened to me?! My paws! My fur…my…”
She paused, in her panicked inspection of herself as she realised something else.
“It…it really worked!”
She exclaimed again, this time excited rather than terrified.
“My wish, it really worked!”
She laughed, throwing herself around Danielle´s neck.
“I am human now do you see? I am human! Now Rosalina won´t be angry you are spending time with me anymore. And look! Our fur is the same colour! We are like real sisters!”
Hearing Hayden´s comment, Sigrit tilted her head to the side with wide smile.
“Yeah, but you have to agree that they are cute together.”
She said as Hariyama and Niko climbed on their feet bellow her.
“Well, guess truth or dare ended just now, so time for more meat!”
The sumo wrestler grinned happily, grabbing large steak.

[Bobbie]

Danielle stared at Beast as she appeared to take offence to being called a golden retriever, although it meant in the most loving way possible. Upon seeing the woman fall flat on her face, she crawled over to her as well.

“Are you okay?” she asked, kneeling on the other side just as Gabriel also rushed to her air. Then she sank into his arms and the treasure huntress gave them space, not quite sure of what to think. It was odd, to see the Professor snuggle a human woman, as well as worrying. His attraction to lost young ladies and habit of likening them to puppies was not something she considered normal, and now this was only going to reinforce it.

The shrill ear-piercing scream made Danielle wince and fall back to sit down on the deck again. “I wasn’t mean to you! Beast, I loooove you~!” She immediately defended herself, taking such an accusation very seriously. Beast’s attention, however, was clearly elsewhere as she went on about a wish.

Confused, Danielle remained silent until she was suddenly pounced on and she unsteadily tilted back, falling onto her back on the deck with Beast on top of her. For a moment, she felt sad that Beast would make such a wish to change herself just to get to spend more time with her, especially because of somebody who didn’t appreciate her beauty. That faded a moment later as she was far too drunk to consider things so deeply and wrapped her arms around Beast, laughing.

“Beast, Rosalina will only be angrier if she sees me spending time with you like this because you are so pretty!” she explained amidst her laughter.

“They are cute,” Hayden replied to Sigrid, before raising his voice to be heard, “but she’s MY sister!” He shouted with a bit of a sulk, as if that status couldn’t possibly be shared.

Danielle propped herself up on one elbow, her other arm still around Beast now that she knew who it was and had no real reason to be alarmed. “She would be so jealous, I will never hear the end of it! She’ll keep rattling on about it till the day I die.” With a roll of her eye, she may have unintentionally let some disdain toward a single trait in her lover show, despite always fighting to claim how perfect the ginger doll is.

Hearing Hariyama talk about cooking up more meat, she grinned. “Food!”

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #35

Happy to be in Danielle´s arms, Beast squeezed the treasure huntress back in a tight embrace.
“I am not pretty.”
She smiled smugly.
“I am beauuuuuutiful!”
Attempt to howl the word the way she used to do in doggo form didn´t work exactly as planned, but the glowing woman didn´t care in the slightest about such minor details, because she had her best friend in her arms. Her happiness however somehow faded, after Daniele mentioned, that her new form would make things only worse with Rosalina.
“What? That´s not fair.”
She whined in protest, releasing the treasure huntress to see in her face.
“She doesn´t like dogs, is jealous of your friends, how did you even fell in love with such person when you have nothing in common?”
She puffed her cheeks to show how upset she was with Rosalina and her whims.
Sitting right next to them, Gabriel couldn´t but her their debate, finding himself wondering why it was usually the innocent mind that found the underlying truth with such ease.
“Food?!”
Beast´s bad mood didn´t last long however as both, Hariyama and Danielle announced that it was time for another round of their feast.
“Wait…since I am human now, does it mean…I CAN EAT FROM THE TABLE!”
She laughed, sprinting towards the offered meat with full sprint, while dragging Danielle behind, holding her hand tightly.
“Innocent mind indeed.”
The Professor sighed, climbing back on his feet.
“She is glowing.”
Said Namkhai who slowly made his way towards him.
“She is…”
Gabriel nodded in agreement.
“Humans don´t glow.”
Another nod.
“Yes, whatever she ate, it was probably some kind of special Devil Fruit. I wonder if she can harness that light…”
Watching his master rubbing his stubble beard Namkhai sighed.
“It will draw lots of attention, some people…”
Gabriel nodded, putting his hand on the Titan´s shoulder.
“I know, we will have to protect her, now more than ever, but…this night is about celebration not worrying am I right?”
Moving his eyes from Gabriel towards Danielle, Namkhai nodded.
“You are.”

[Bobbie]

The human howl that came from Beast made Danielle laugh as she was tempted to howl with her. As the human-shaped canine put forward such a salient point, however, the treasure huntress frowned.

“Well… that’s not…” Seeming to be struggling to find an answer to her question, the blonde lover’s brow only furrowed further. “We both love-” the thought of them loving each other was always more than enough for Danielle, and she was about to express that, but didn’t get the chance to, as her announcement of food seemed to steer Beast directly off topic.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, she felt her arm yanked, her head thrown back with the sudden movement, and her entire body was dragged along the deck by Beast, who couldn’t contain her excitement for eating at the table.

Danielle tried to make it to her feet, but with only one hand free and moving at the speed of Beast’s sprint, she looking like a fumbling, tumbling mess. Each time she rose to her feet, her body failed to keep up in her drunken state, and she was back on the floor again.

Finally reaching the table and ending her journey, the treasure huntress knelt and grabbed onto the table, her entire forearm slamming onto it to offer some leverage as she pushed down on it and pulled herself up.

Sighing, she stood upright, more or less, leaning forward just a little with her palm flat on the table. “Alright… we made it!” she exclaimed, her hair mostly coming undone from its side ponytail and falling over her face, while her suit became more disheveled and scruffier than before, a clear sign of the ordeal she had just endured thanks to Beast.

“Now what to eat first?” her gaze scanned the table’s contents, eyeing all the delicious food that Hariyama had prepared for them.

Grabbing a two-tined fork, she jabbed at a thick slice of steak and brought it close to her mouth to take a large bite as she turned to lean against the table and keep herself steady.

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #36

Only after they reached the table did Beast actually turned around to take a look at Danielle, her curious face melting in an enamoured smile, that was very good copy of the way Gabriel was looking at his blonde puppy.
“Your fur is messy.”
She smiled, trying to brush Danielle´s hair with her fingers, painfully oblivious to a way this could look like to an unsuspecting observer.
That moment was however quickly interrupted by Namkhai, who made his way towards the table with large barrel full of mead which he slammed on the deck next to Danielle. Impressive feat by its own, given the size of that thing and the fact the Titan could use only one arm at the moment.
“Wait a second!”
He exclaimed, losing the control over his voice´s volume because of the alcohol.
“You!”
He pointed his finger at Danielle.
“You avoided my round of truth and dare, so now I have to…I am challenging you to a duel!”
He announced, opening the barrel, before fetching them a couple of glasses.
“The rules are simple…GUYS!”
At his signal, Niko and Hariyama grabbed a long and narrow plank, putting it on top of other two barrels.
“We will be taking turns. At the beginning of your turn, you will drink your glass and then walk across the plank. Who will fall first is the loser!”
He grinned.
“And let me tell you this. If you´ll lose, you have to spend the rest of the night with me, singing and dancing as if there would be no tomorrow. But, if I´ll lose, I´ll give you this!”
He reached into his pocket, pulling out single ring. A real piece of art waved from white gold and diamonds.
“This thing was passed down in my family for loooong time, but since that b*tch I wanted to give it to marry a chieftain´s son instead, I´ll give it to you. For that ginger…ginger…Rosalina, so you could marry her right away!”
He tried very hard to not get on Danielle´s bad side by calling her fiancée a names.
Standing a nearby, Gabriel wondered to what extend did Namkhai pretended he was drunk. After all he was a big guy who had way more training in this regard than the Professor. And just a minute ago he managed to talk with him just fine, although they conversation was rather grim. In the end, he decided, that whatever was his lieutenant faking it to gain an advantage in upcoming competition, or if it was just a was caused by Danielle´s presence, it was none of his business. Still, he had to admire the ring the Titan offered her to his eyes that thing looked roughly three to four centuries old and he was pretty sure that these gems were real.

[Bobbie]

Sitting in her palm, Hayden’s attention fell on his sister once more. “I know she loves dogs, but I never expected…” he started, but never finished that thought, perhaps losing where he actually planned to go with it in his drunken stupor, or simply daring not to finish it.

Danielle frowned as she felt Beast’s fingers brushed through her hair. Immediately, she looked at her and gently took her hand in her free one and then laughed. “Stop…” she muttered, having never liked the feeling of anyone playing with her hair since she was a child.

Namkhai’s voice rang through the air quite loudly and the treasure huntress turned to look at him, her fork in one hand and Beast’s in the other as she continued to eat her food.

“ME!” She stared at the blonde titan, swallowing the last piece of steak and pointing the fork at herself. What followed was something that Danielle was less happy to repeat as she got caught and her attempts to get out of a truth or dare challenge from the man were ruined. With a huff, she looked away but didn’t bother denying it.

“What kind of duel?” She released Beast’s hand and recklessly jabbed the fork at the wooden table to get it stuck in there. Her question was quickly answered and most likely unnecessary as Namkhai was already explaining the rules.

Following his explanation wasn’t the easiest thing to do after the amount Danielle had already had to drink, but the game was thankfully quite simple, and Niko and Hariyama were already preparing the plank to help her visualise exactly what he was talking about. The blonde was ready to reject his challenge the moment he mentioned spending the rest of the night with him, especially singing and dancing. She didn’t hate dancing, but she did not sing…

However, the beautiful ring that he produced quickly caught her eye before she said a single word. Leaning forward to see it, she was already eager to have it as Danielle reached out to try and take it in her drunken grasp.

“Challenge accepted!” she shouted back at him with a confident grin. “Unlike you, my narrow frame will make this easy. Easy. As. Pie!” Crossing her arms, she began to laugh until a hiccup interrupted her laugh. After a brief pause, she opened her arms and bowed with an arm outstretched.

“After you, Mighty Gorilla. Drink! Then fumble your way across that plank!”

Hayden couldn't believe what he was just witnessing. "An engagement ring... he's giving my sister an engagement ring..."

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #37

Grinning, as Danielle accepted his challenge, Namkhai moved towards the Professor, with the ring in hands.
“Can you keep it for a while? Would be shame if it got lost.”
Nodding, Gabriel accepted that ancient piece of jewellery, taking the opportunity, to take a closer look at it. Well, if what Namkhai told him about it´s history was true, then the Titan´s family had very interesting past, that much was sure. Because, while the Titan himself hailed from a nomadic tribe of seafarers, this particular piece was made around four centuries ago by someone working for the goldsmithing guild in Goa Kingdom. It was hard to imagine, that nomad would buy it for his wife or that he would even have the money for it, but this wasn´t the time and place to ask whatever Namkhai knew about it´s true history or not.
As he was lost in his thoughts, his was already preparing himself for his round.
“Glad you are in high spirit! Let´s see how long it´ll last!”
He boasted, emptying his glass in one go, before climbing at the barrels, walking across the plank. He was swaying of course, but it was still an amazing display of stability.
“Now it´s your turn, show as your agile monkey feet!”
He taunted the treasure huntress before her first round.
“Huh? Your turn?”
Asked Beast, with her mouth full of Hariyama´s dumplings.
“Good luck!”
She cheered for her favourite human, trying to grab a glass of mead for herself, only to be stopped dead in her tracks with a single warning look from her dad.
Meanwhile, dozen or so meters above the main deck, Sigrid watched what was happening bellow her with a curious look written all over her face.
“He did, but sadly for that ginger brat…”
She whispered, obviously dissatisfied with the turn of the event.
“We have to do something…quickly you are the clever one, come up with some plan to engage the two of them!”

[Bobbie]

Danielle watched Namkhai, quite surprised that he didn’t fall off the plank but suppressed her amazement well and hiding the fact that she was impressed.

“Oh, yeah, I’ll show you these agile monkey feet, your massive ape ones wouldn’t stand a chance!” She retorted before filling her glass with mead and drinking it all in a few gulps. A bit of it dripped down her chin from the corners of her mouth as she eagerly drank it, then she put her glass down on the table. Taking a deep breath, she hopped up onto the barrel and held her arms out at her sides.

The trick was very simple - don’t look at anything that is moving. Naturally, her gaze fell on the very still plant as she walked across it, carefully placing one foot in front of the other while her arms helped her keep her balance.

She swayed and her body leaned forward as she passed the half-way mark, but as she was about to fall, she hurried forward with a two quick steps and then hopped off on the other side.

“Like I said. Easy.” Danielle had a proud smirk on her face as she looked at Namkhai, curious to see if he expected her to fail or not. “Your turn, round two… Hurry up before I up the stakes for you. Less big gorilla talk, more big gorilla do!”

Meanwhile, the twin onlooker watched on from above, quite fascinated by what was going on, as well as what Sigrid was saying. He rarely had people to complain about Rosalina with, as the people he encountered on a daily basis either didn’t know her, or refused to hear anything bad about the brat. Everything about Sigrid was refreshing.

“What?” he turned to look at her, immediately flustered as she called him the clever one. “If I were that clever, I would have got Danielle to dump that rotten apple years ago!” he sighed, sadly, and shook his head.

“We should bet on them…” he muttered, his mind wandering once more.

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Danielle: #fffd17
Hayden: #c3f8fa