Waiting for instruction, Ika made purring noises to the bird. Almost immediately upon her arrival, there was clearly some discontent amongst the crew and those in the higher-ups. Leni moved very close to the pair, to which Nukani protested with an angry screech that had some crew members holding ...

Of course, Ika could have taken off right then as they had all figured she had. The idea of hunting a mythical beast that could swallow a ship whole was one that would scare off even the most seasoned of hunters. This was probably a large part of why the hired guns were so versatile; no one else in ...

Standing toward the wall, Ika rested her hand on her hip. She idly picked at the dirt and leaves in the dreads of her hair while the men, and ugly woman, spoke. Len was it? Lena? No names she had come across since she'd been away from her home were familiar.

Ika realized that she was going to be ...

The interior of the warehouse had foul air. Closed in on every side, the only natural smell that was detectable was the salt from the ocean waters. The scent of sea air had been replaced by sweat, mold, rust, and metal. Ika wrinkled her nose, surveying the room. Very little sunlight came through the ...

That sense of wonder in that boy's eyes was refreshing to her. It reminded her a bit of her own children, the ones she had left behind. In her home, a child without this curiosity would soon perish, for they had no desire to learn. Likewise, a child with too much curiosity would perish of just the ...

Naturally, as the group walked, the two who seemed to be youngest broke away for a moment into their own conversation. Or, at least, what might be called an attempt at conversation. Jeeko, who couldn't have been much older than Ika, stared with wonder at the tempfirus. People had always been curious ...

Words passed over her, accented words with little parts of them reaching her, like "sea monsters." She wished that she had learned Eyropan more before she had come here, as it was quite a lonely thing to be the only one who didn't 'get it.' Still, she knew that with time more of the language would ...

Ika, of course, had already been technically signed on long before she had even entered Corezo, hired by some high-class individual of the Eyropan empire who had heard rumor of her talents. Else, she would have had no reason to have come here. She certainly wasn't here to sight-see or buy property ...

The boy was engaged in what she told, bright eyed and adventuring in his mind, hungry for whatever more she or the other woman had to say. It was strangely invigorating, perhaps because it had been some time since any person had paid much attention to her beyond business and the occasional curious ...

They reminded her a bit of a drum circle in Semerkhet that she had attended more than once, a gathering of lust and dirt and people of all sorts. But the bars and taverns that she had been in more and more were not really anything like those circles, although she didn't know what else to compare ...

The savage in question returned to a tense scene with three individuals she hadn't given much thought to two minutes ago. Her hands had a bit of blood on them and she was flicking a small red feather with her fingers, staring openly at the person she had assumed to be a man. The man was actually a ...

Belleza was a word she couldn't pronounce. Many strange names of this region were mysteries to her, with bouncing b's and syllables that played the tongue's "S" sound into staccatos and slurs. When she tried to say it, the word felt in her throat like metal against stone, or thorns caught on her ...

Ika's app is finally done. I'll be making her intro post as soon as it's approved :p

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