"Admittedly I didn't plan for pirates to be chasing him," Camilla confessed as she heaved at her oar. Well no one had appointed her Captain General of Pavona had they? Skaldi let Gilbrect go and grabbed the oar Ivan released as he saw Cydric running across the beach. Gilbrecht immediately reached for the tiller bar to turn them away from the beach but the Kislivite turned a baleful eye on the sailor, freezing him in his tracks.

[b]"You no exactly Captain General of Pavona," [/b]Ivan rumbled. Camilla did a momentary double take at the statement, not only because it so closely resembled her own thought, but because she would have bet good money Ivan couldn't even point in the direction of Tilea. The Kislivite wasn't sparing her attention just now though, instead he raised that strange horsebow of his and loosed an arrow. From the scream he hit someone but there was no time to look.

[b]"We are going to hit the beach,"[/b] Gilbrecht chirruped in alarm. Skaldi let out a roaring laugh.

[b]"That's the idea manling!"[/b]

A second later there was a scraping sound, the shore here was sand rather than rock, so the bottom didn't tear out, but the impact smashed Skaldi and Camilla against their oar. Ivan was already off the boat and wading through the calf deep water with murder in his eyes. Skaldi looked at the water skeptically, his lesser height a distinct disadvantage. Camilla badly wished she could stay on the boat but this was her plan and she could hardly hold back now.

[b]"Stay and help Gilbrecht guard the boat,"[/b] she told the dwarf somewhat euphemeistically, and then leapt over the gunwale into the waist deep water and waded as quickly as she could towards the beach. Hoping there weren't enough pirates left to kill them, inspite of her oh so clever trick.
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