[h2] Skyejacked Part 2 [/h2]
[h3]Eavesdown Docks [/h3]
[h3] Abby, Mathias, Cyd, Isaac [/h3]
OOC: JP between [@Winters], [@MK Blitzen], [@Yule] and [@sail3695]

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“Depends on which is the least expensive?” Cyd replied, avoiding the word [i]cheap,[/i] which some folk tended to get indignant over. “We don’t mind a double, I’ve shared a room with my brother’s before.” 

"Dibs on the single then!" Isaac chimed in with enthusiasm.

"Cute. No Short Round … she ment us three cramming into a double." Mathias explained as Issac skated out of slapping range.

“He gets the sleeping bag,” Cyd tsked with a shake of her head.  

“So,” Abby glanced from the big’un to the green haired girl to the blond Asian kid.  “A double...fer all three of yah.”  She shrugged.  “Bit close, but we can setcha up.  Standard fare fer each.  Ten percent off fer each.”

Cyd shifted the candy in her mouth again, this is normally where they’d haggle, Mathias or Isaac most likely given the orange headed girl’s disposition, but getting off Persephone seemed like a better option. And the take was pretty good this go round, plus with sharing a room… She bobbed her head affirmatively. “Kiff,” she agreed. “Standard minus ten percent each sounds great.” 

"Bomba!" Isaac and Mathias cheerfully concurred as they bumped fists.

The girl opened the clipboard.  “Whilst yer diggin’ out yer coin, I’ll take yer names fer the log.”


“Cyd,” Cyd replied, pointing to her brother’s respectively. “C-y-d. Not S-i-d, it makes a difference. That’s Mathias, an’ Isaac, Skye,”

“Sky,” Abby repeated.  “Like the wild blue?  All three of yah?”

“Where the sun rises and sets,” Cyd agreed, “Only with an e at the end.”

"So … Who do we pay? Captain? First Mate?" Mathias asked.

Abby replied, “That’ll be me,” before returning to her clipboard.  “Sky with an E.  All three.  Travelin’ family.”  She conjured sayin’ somethin’ ‘bout the strong resemblance, but ruled that one out.  Passengers was paychecks.  No need fer her to go pokin’ their stories.  “Alright...I’ll walk yah back after yah pay up.”

Cyd held her backpack straps a little tighter. 

Isaac snorted a laugh as he hopped off his board. "Had a deckhand say that before. Cash up front, no guarantee. Go to board and the Cap knows nothing about it. Tell him we paid up in full and even pointed out the one we paid. Skebenga pretended to know nothin'." Isaac popped his gum as he slung his board under his arm and shifted his weight, leaning against his big brother. "Not much on a replay of that kind of...unpleasantness. Yabai. Need a guarantee or pay the Cap direct." he said, folding his arms and exaggerating his gum chewing with a smile.

"Cho. We don't mind waiting or you can walk one of us to him or her direct." Mathias offered. They weren't unreasonable, just very cautious.

“I can show you we got ‘em,” Cyd added in a softer tone as she nodded to Mathias. “But we were stranded for a pretty long time after that. Can’t blame a body for being cautious.” 

The clipboard remained aloft, ink drying on the names of the three Skyes. Abby regarded them, feeling the burn of her honesty impugned by strangers.  [i]This is the part where Uncle Bob woulda gone back tah full fare,[/i] she thought.  But Uncle Bob was dead.  This was a new boat, with a new Captain, and if what she’d heard ‘bout Badger rang true, a skinny thread of a deal to carry them through.

“Bad luck, friends,” the girl swallowed her anger.  “But here’s how it is.  Cap’n trusts me tah log in passengers an’ cargo, and ta collect cashy money.  Yer guaranty?” she turned toward the smallest of the three.  “That was me tellin yew I’m walkin’ yah back soon’s I gotcher fares in hand.  That ain’t good enough, then y’all can wait outside.  Cap’n’ll be around presently, but with a boat fixin’ tah launch it ain’t gonna happen fer awhile.”  

“We were just askin’ for a guarantee, you know, a piece of paper sayin’ we paid and who took our creds,” Cyd replied, unsure why that would be an unusual or difficult request. Maybe she couldn’t write? No, that couldn’t be it, she added their names to the clipboard. 

“A receipt?” the girl asked.  “Shiny.  Happy tah oblige...soon’s I have yer fares in hand.”

“How long you been running with the captain n’ ship?” Mathias asked casually, thumbs hook on the strap of his shoulder pack and Cyd scribbled their names down.

[i]R-e-c-e-i-v-e-d f-r-o-m[/i] Abby wrote onto a blank page.  “Today’s muh first day on this boat,” she replied.

Cyd gave her another warm smile. [i]No wonder the hiccup![/i], she mused. “Bon Bagay,” She congratulated. “It should be a good trip. I have a good feeling about this boat.”