Adrianna looked up at the sound of a scolding voice. She didn’t recognize the man, but she recognized the insignia he wore. [i]Hunter[/i]. She could feel her heart pounding against her chest. He already had his hand on his blade, as if he expected a fight. She had been sitting on the counter against the wall, and kept her head down as he looked over at her. He grabbed her bowl, sniffing the contents to ensure that it was enhanced, and then threw it against the wall. The bowl shattered, and the contents Adrianna had not yet eaten spilled onto the floor. She flinched at the sound, and looked up at Kent, the spoon still hanging out of her mouth. Slowly, she took the spoon out of her mouth, laying it down beside her as Kent lectured at the Naga to dump out the rest of the stew.

What a waste. 

Gideard put his head down as well, not wanting the hunter to see the glare plastered across his face. The Naga moved over to the bowl, covering it as he picked it up off of the stove, holding it with rags on the hot handles as he brought it over to the sink. 

“Bully.” Adrianna said under her breath, though probably still loud enough for the hunter to hear her. Had she not just been… engaging in illicit behavior, she might have refrained from calling him out, but her inhibitions were a bit lower for the moment. 

“Excuse me?” Kent turned towards her, using his larger frame to make it rather difficult for her to try to escape, not that there was anywhere for her to go at the moment.

“I…” Adrianna looked over at Gideard, but he was not going to help her out on this. He was still trying to hope that Kent would forget about the whole extortion part of this affair. After all, he used quite a bit of his good stock to make that stock…and hadn’t exactly turned a profit yet. “You are being a bully. Chasing down Naga Leaves isn’t exactly what you are being paid to do…” She gestured to the insignia he wore. “You are supposed to hunt magii. Shouldn’t you focus on that?”

Kent answered that he dealt with Naga when they were serving drugs, acting like it was a huge deal that they were onboard the ship. 

“We aren’t even IN Galloway yet. This is the ocean. Last I checked, you didn’t [i]own[/i] the Ocean.” Adrianna continued to shove her foot in her mouth, recalling one of the reasons she had considered leaving the land and traveling by sea…to get further from the influence of the Church.

“No, but we are on an Adelon ship. Which means this ship is bound by our kingdom’s laws. Which means…” He nodded to the soup. “That, is illegal.”

Adrianna scoffed, sliding off the table and moving around him. Hunters were so uppity. They believed all laws were theirs to enforce, instead of just worry about magii, like they were actually supposed to. Kent let her pass, and though she wanted to stick up for the Naga, she didn’t want to get in trouble with authorities at Galloway either. Last thing she needed was to be tossed in a crowded cell for a day. She adjusted the fingerless gloves on her hands as she moved through the halls to one of the higher decks. She was still quite angry, and finally decided to just go to the top to get some fresh air. Adrianna immediately spotted another of the hunters near the railing, and so went the opposite direction. She had her fill of hunters for a while.