Lily ran about the docks. She had grown familiar with this place in the last few years. She looked about the docked ships and the hordes of people flowing off the ships and those trudging onto others. Lily caught sight of one ship in particular with a spunky young woman with golden locks tucked neatly in a braid running about the deck. The blond lady ran frantically around yelling at the other people on the ship and eventually disappeared below deck. Lily giggled to herself and skipped her way up the ramp to the Shrike.

The small port town was awfully busy as Ash walked through the crowds of people. His eyes wandered the crowd looking for the small human he had been dragged into playing with. Her favorite game lately had been hide and seek and she had been doing a pretty good job of hiding today. Ash couldn't find her in the merchant stalls or in the back alley ways of the town. She wasn't hiding the forest and about the only place left to look was the docks.
Ash could see why the town was so busy after seeing the amount of ships in port. Deck hands loaded and unloaded all kinds of ships around the dock. Ash checked around all of the barrels and crates on the edges of the docks and he searched in the piles of rope and other goods brought out by the various ship dwellers; where could she have gone?
Ash observed all of the ships around the docks and managed to catch sight of a small girl with bobbed blond hair sneaking about the deck of a particular ship. His eyes widened as she slipped around a corner and out of his sight.
[i]Shit...[/i] 
Ash sped off from his spot and clambered up the ramp to The Shrike.