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[hr][color=gold]Location:[/color] Isla d'Amato near the water
[hr][color=gold]Interactions/Mentions:[/color] Onarr [@Bork Lazer], Trypano [@A Lowly Wretch], Ingrid [@dragonpiece], Amelea, Ismet'ych'lahin'dichora, and the others nearby [@Force and Fury]
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Desmond listened to the princess as she spoke, and he was honestly dumbfounded. At this point, Desmond had about enough of this whole situation. He is found in the middle of a political struggle, a king trying to secure his thrown through any means, a princess trying to free herself and her people from his grasp. This little shadow game between a nation, the school, and the church, honestly Desmond about had enough. He was not paid enough…[color=gold][i]'Wait, I'm not even being paid!! I was promised not a damn thing for all of this. No money, no promise of education, hell why would I care what that old man could show me? What can he do for me?[/i][/color]

Desmond began to rub the back of his head as he looked down, he seemed like he was beyond irritated, he has had the most annoying night humanly possible. He had to deal with a very annoying situation from the very beginning, a political game that he had no clue about because he had zero clue about any of the political push and pull that was occurring. He is in a pirate's paradise with every corner seeming to have someone either willing to gut you or a pirate. And for some reason, Desmond is always being set up with missions that have no guaranteed reward, and right now he has to either choose between letting the princess go off and cut his own losses or decide to fight to try and ensure her survival. Yet the most annoying thing of this all is that Desmond decided to accept another mission without any guarantee of a reward. As he looked around and listened to the Princess talk he began to watch as many different people seem to almost appear from the crowd that was appearing answering the call she made to them.

As the princess continued she asked for their assistance, with the promise of rewards if they are victorious. There would be quite a bit of reward, some to go to their war and whatever is left is to be given to them. Desmond looked away as he clicked his tongue and almost seemed upset, someone finally promised him something, but now it is to face off against what would be mostly mages, pirates, and mercenaries. He ground his teeth as now they were being compensated, yet they were going to be tasked on a suicide mission. They had no ship, and whatever they could scrounge up would probably be second-rate at best. Yet it seemed like another one of Desmond's excuses were dashed, as a pirate appeared who says they were loyal to Amelea and offered his ship and crew to her war.

Desmond thought for a moment as when he was about to talk about their missing teammate, almost like clockwork he heard cannon fire. He whipped around and looked out to see two ships, one pulling the other as he heard the voice of a very familiar person, [color=gold]"Penny"[/color]. Desmond felt almost relieved, almost. Desmond stood there and waved nonchalantly to her as it seemed Trypano was done with the conversation as she left in a hurry. Desmond sighed as he realized this might be a fight they need to take. Desmond took a breath in as he was about to say something, that was until he felt a draw of energy that made him almost sick. His head turned to Ingrid as he saw the flying rubble and then her run into an alley, as that was when he knew she found something she shouldn't have. She found the death she caused. He wished if she left it alone, yet she was more than determined to do it, she had a decent heart to her, so having such things happen can easily break someone. Injuring their very being as they now had to deal with the idea of innocent death. Desmond looked to the others as he says, [color=gold]"We'll need to talk with the rest of our crew, so please give me a moment"[/color]. As once he said that he made his way to Ingrid, he needed to make sure she was okay, having someone going crazy now would be too much for them to handle now.

As he made his way to the alley he saw Ingrid puking up what seemed to mostly be liquids. She must have had been mostly alcohol because of how late they were called to the Forked Tower for the Bastard Magician's game to take these missions. Desmond looked to her and saw she was mostly naked, with only small bits of cloth covering the most important bits, she must have not thought of it through the intensity of the combat and the things following after. Desmond moved over to where she is and took off his coat and tossed it over her as she was hunched over. He leaned against the wall as he took his hat off as well and tossed it onto her head while he took out his water skin and took a swig from it before holding it out to her and saying, [color=gold]"I know it hurts. But if we don't do what we have to now, then we will never be able to atone"[/color]. Desmond did not look to her with sympathy, he looked as if he had a neutral face, one that seemed to almost never be held on his face, it had no smirk, no grin, but it was also no mask it just seemed like he was getting tired himself and took it off.