Arrival in Basra

[alex]

The pillow hit her in the face. She was shocked. That is definitely not how Rongar usually acts. She caught the pillow as it hit her. She glared at Rongar and lightly shouted. "Hey, that is no way to treat a woman! Now get up! Sinbad is waiting for you, and we don't have all day!"

She threw the pillow back at Rongar and walked out of his cabin, shaking her head.

[Rongar]

Rongar snorted as she yelled at him.

It might not have been polite, but it wasn't a horrible thing to do to anyone.

He stood up and grabbed his shoes.

As he made his way through the mess, he grabbed a small portion of bread and began to munch on it as he made it topside.

He'd apologise to Bryn later, right now he had work to do apparantly.

[alex]

Bryn was shaking her head when she crossed her own cabin. She stopped and thought that she should wake up Dermott. They may certainly need him. And she would enjoy his company. She smiled and gently opened the door.

But her smile soon faded, when she found out the room to be empty. She mumbled to herself and saw that the window was open. "Figures," she said. She closed the door and headed up to deck.

"Has anybody seen Dermott?" she asked, looking at Sinbad and Firouz.

[firouz]

"I think I saw him fly off to the city," Firouz said while holding his magnescope.

[alex]

Bryn smiled and nodded to him. Then she turned to Sinbad. "I am going to see if I can find him."

[Sinbad]

Sinbad gave her a nod. "Good, but be careful." he said. "I just suggested that me and Rongar could go to see to some rooms in a tavern for tonight and Doubar stays with the ship to tend to the cargo. Should we agree on a place to meet later or will you just come back to the ship?" He still hadn´t forgotten about the earlier warning and in such cases he usually preferred to know where he crew was, just in case.

[Rongar]

Rongar finished the bread he was eating and came up upon the others. Firouz was eyeing the sky with his magnascope and Sinbad and Bryn were talking about what she was going to do once in port.

He sighed. Now that he was awake, he felt really bad about what he did to the sweet sorceress.

He had been angry at being woken up, but he hadn't been thinking when he threw the pillow at her.

He came up behind her and touched her shoulder.

He was expecting her to be angry at him; he hoped she'd let him explain.

[alex]

"Oh, no reason to do that, Sinbad. I won't be gone long."

Suddenly she felt a tap on her back. She jumped, turned around, and placed her hand over her chest. But she was relieve that it was only Rongar.

"Oh, Rongar, you scared me."

[Rongar]

He tipped his head down at that and scratched the back of his head sheepishly. He hadn't meant to do THAT either.

He took a deep breath and raised his eyes to hers.

He placed his hands palms together under his tilted head; then he made a motion of throwing the pillow lightly as he disn't want to hit her with his hands.

He blinked in a way that people do when they are tired and nodded his head as he pointed to himself.

Finally, he licked his lips and mouthed the words for no sound would leave his lips, "I'm sorry."

He hoped she's forgive him.

[alex]

Bryn smiled at Rongar and placed her hand on his left arm. “It’s alright. I forgive you.” She then chuckled. “After all, I expected I might get a half-rude response considering you only slept a few hours or so.”

She patted Rongar’s left arm before she turned to Sinbad. “Well, I’ll be off,” she exhaled, before running off. But before she left the ship, she turned to Sinbad. “And don’t go anywhere,” she called out smiling. With that, she turned back and headed off the ship and into the crowded port.

[Rongar]

Rongar grinned as their resident sorceress forgave him.

His grin grew larger as she rushed off the ship. Why she left was a mystery; but when he lifted his eyes to the sky he realized that their eyes in the sky was gone as well.

That solved the mystery. She'd gone searching for Dermott.

With that settled in his mind, he turned to Sinbad and placed his hands on his hips.

'I'm up' his movements showed.

Then he tilted his head to the side, and raised an eyebrow.

'What are my orders?' was his quirrey.

[Sinbad]

Sinbad watched their more or less silent exchange, coming to the conclusion that he was apparently not the only one to be tense and difficult to deal with these days. He tried to push it off as the effects of long sea travel and recent events, but couldn´t help feeling a bit guilty. After all, he was the reason for Rongar to be exhausted.

However, he didn´t show it. He chuckled at Bryn´s words, remembering his earlier suggestion, but knowing that, as captain, he never left the vicinity of the ship in the first minute of a landing anyways. "You can help me look if we can hire someone to help Douba with the cargo." he suggested. "and we need to make sure the ropes are tight, so the Nomad´s properly anchored before we leave." It would take some minutes. Work first.

[Rongar]

Rongar nodded and went to check all the ropes.

He figured that might be his duty, but at the same time he was anxious to get ashore.

He wanted get buy some nice fresh fruit, by Allah!

As the boys along the dock, were waving at him to throw ropes for anchoring, he smiled and shook his head.

He tossed one more to a port boy and waited as he secured it.

Then he went around checking the ropes on the ship.

[Sinbad]

Rongar looked tired and Sinbad couldn´t blame him for it. Quite the contrary, he felt his bad consciousness sting for a moment, so he walked past the other man, giving him a pat on the shoulder before he moved to get off board. "I´m sure it won´t take long." he assured his friends. "there are quite some eager hands to find here, as always. We´ll have quite some help to get work over with quickly."

And with that he hopped onto the pier and started checking the ropes first of all.

[Rongar]

Rongar finished his checks of the ropes from the ship's side of the lines, and nodded in satisfaction.

He heard Sinbad words and smiled.

His eyes followed Sinbad's jump; then his body followed his captain's without any real thought of it himself.