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Post by DANIKA DAY on Nov 8, 2011 0:11:22 GMT -5
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Sometimes pirates could be just downright stupid.
This reef was obviously called grief reef for a reason, and -- if that wasn't warning enough -- some skeletal remains of lifeless ships clearly sat above the water's surface, acting like gravestones. And yet, for some reason which was completely beyond Dan's scope of human understanding, captains who were new to the whole piracy business still managed to steer their ships straight into the reef, effectively damning their vessel to the waters below. If she had been stuck on a ship with a captain with that much incompetence, she'd have drugged him and shoved him overboard months ago.
But Dan wasn't about to start complaining about humanity's faults now. After all, one crew's loss was her gain.
She had been diving through a hole in the hull into the submerged hold of a recently-wrecked ship for about half an hour now, picking up stray doubloons and small trinkets that looked valuable enough for her to bother to carry back to the Nimue. Under the grey surface of the reef, it was spectacular: the way the light danced through the faint currents, the vividly colored coral formations, the way gravity ceased to weigh her down. Dan would have described it as dreamlike if she didn't have to worry about holding her breath and the threat of drowning. Oh, the downfalls of being human...
As Dan surfaced from yet another dive down into the ship, she quietly tread water for a few moments and tried to catch her breath. The sunlight had turned from strikingly clear to a soft golden hue in the time since she had begun diving. It would be dark soon. But before she was able to start making her way back to the shore, Dan heard a splash coming from somewhere in the still water. Brushing her soaking hair (which was black today) out of her eyes, she glanced at the newcomer and called over to them, "Sorry mate, most of the decent treasure's been taken already."
ooc: it's about time I posted something xD
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