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<blockquote data-quote="Queenie" data-source="post: 6441754" data-attributes="member: 8058"><p>Katerina glares angrily at Barrington for a long moment, the corner of her full lips twitching. She narrows her eyes and stays quiet in a long awkward moment in which a lot of breath is being held by those around her. Old Zef prepars for a barrage of Spanish profanities to come rolling out of those lips he knew so well. </p><p></p><p>Amazingly, that did not happen. Katerina du Corazon started laughing. And laughing some more. <span style="color: #EE82EE">“I do not care about your feeble judgments or about your feelings in any of these matters. Your recriminations would have no bearing upon my reputation whatsoever, especially from a <em>privateer</em> as yourself. Obviously you are no pirate. I spoke for half the group assembled prior to negotiations and for possibly more than that, as you heard from your very ears they called me Captain. Regardless of your petty accusations, I had the success of this expedition firmly in mind and that includes MY CREW. My associates know the words you speak could never be spoken in truth about me. If there is one thing I take deadly serious, it is the condition and treatment of my crew.”</span> She takes a long sip from the flask she filled when the rum had been delivered.</p><p></p><p>She rises from her sitting position and chuckles again. <span style="color: #EE82EE">“You, however, are a liar.”</span> She reaches into her pocket and pulls out the 5 glittering gems, showing them to the group. <span style="color: #EE82EE">“I did ask for, and take, money up front; I just did not try to scare the poor man away by greedily asking for more whilst potentially giving up an extra thousands upon thousands of your guineas that would be his share once we find the treasure. As there were no other funds offered, you also lie that I turned down anything else.”</span> She slips the gems back into a secure pocket.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #EE82EE">“My very able associates informed me BEFORE WE WENT INSIDE that his offer of 5000 Louis d'ors would be sufficient to fund a crew for some time. Granted it is not enough to purchase a ship but you didn’t really think he would walk in and drop a million <em>dineros</em> into our pockets, did you?”</span> She shrugs with her half grin, <span style="color: #EE82EE">“Or perhaps you were a fool and did,”</span> she chuckles. <span style="color: #EE82EE"> “It would not surprise me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #EE82EE"></span></p><p><span style="color: #EE82EE">I held to what we discussed as a group inside prior to going out. I moved the Frenchman down to 6 shares with his man,</span>” she nods to Badouin, <span style="color: #EE82EE">“To be paid according to whatever we decide as a group that our officers will make. You on the other hand chose to give up unnecessary shares as proof we would not fire upon his ships. Only a fool would offer that if the man had not brought it up himself. It is too easy for him to set a trap to try to gain more treasure and impossible for us to prove we did not fire first after being attacked. </span></p><p><span style="color: #EE82EE"></span></p><p><span style="color: #EE82EE">I brought you outside to test your mettle, in which you spectacularly failed. You attempted to offer shares in which no one in here previously agreed to. Nay, you are the selfish one who was doing only what HE wanted out there. Who here knows of why you were called upon or what your own motivations are? Who here can speak for you?"</span></p><p></p><p>Her laughter dies down and a bit of the glare returns to her eyes.<span style="color: #EE82EE"> “You are also wrong about me being weak, very wrong. If I had truly been having a weak or uncontrolled moment, you’d surely be dead where you stood for daring to speak FOR me and my crew and tampering with the crew's gains. I happen to know some of their reasons for needing this to be successful and I have been working tirelessly to help us all. I doubt you can say the same.”</span></p><p><span style="color: #EE82EE"></span></p><p>The toothy grin returns to her face and she returns to casually leaning up against a barrel. An observant eye however would notice her hand sitting on her pistol. <span style="color: #EE82EE">“Since I do not agree in any form that you have given a fair summary of what happened outside, and according to your words 'In that case you will never need serve beneath me’ you may feel free to show yourself out,” </span> she says waving her free arm towards the door, that infuriating grin still in place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Queenie, post: 6441754, member: 8058"] Katerina glares angrily at Barrington for a long moment, the corner of her full lips twitching. She narrows her eyes and stays quiet in a long awkward moment in which a lot of breath is being held by those around her. Old Zef prepars for a barrage of Spanish profanities to come rolling out of those lips he knew so well. Amazingly, that did not happen. Katerina du Corazon started laughing. And laughing some more. [COLOR="#EE82EE"]“I do not care about your feeble judgments or about your feelings in any of these matters. Your recriminations would have no bearing upon my reputation whatsoever, especially from a [I]privateer[/I] as yourself. Obviously you are no pirate. I spoke for half the group assembled prior to negotiations and for possibly more than that, as you heard from your very ears they called me Captain. Regardless of your petty accusations, I had the success of this expedition firmly in mind and that includes MY CREW. My associates know the words you speak could never be spoken in truth about me. If there is one thing I take deadly serious, it is the condition and treatment of my crew.”[/COLOR] She takes a long sip from the flask she filled when the rum had been delivered. She rises from her sitting position and chuckles again. [COLOR="#EE82EE"]“You, however, are a liar.”[/COLOR] She reaches into her pocket and pulls out the 5 glittering gems, showing them to the group. [COLOR="#EE82EE"]“I did ask for, and take, money up front; I just did not try to scare the poor man away by greedily asking for more whilst potentially giving up an extra thousands upon thousands of your guineas that would be his share once we find the treasure. As there were no other funds offered, you also lie that I turned down anything else.”[/COLOR] She slips the gems back into a secure pocket. [COLOR="#EE82EE"]“My very able associates informed me BEFORE WE WENT INSIDE that his offer of 5000 Louis d'ors would be sufficient to fund a crew for some time. Granted it is not enough to purchase a ship but you didn’t really think he would walk in and drop a million [I]dineros[/I] into our pockets, did you?”[/COLOR] She shrugs with her half grin, [COLOR="#EE82EE"]“Or perhaps you were a fool and did,”[/COLOR] she chuckles. [COLOR="#EE82EE"] “It would not surprise me. I held to what we discussed as a group inside prior to going out. I moved the Frenchman down to 6 shares with his man,[/COLOR]” she nods to Badouin, [COLOR="#EE82EE"]“To be paid according to whatever we decide as a group that our officers will make. You on the other hand chose to give up unnecessary shares as proof we would not fire upon his ships. Only a fool would offer that if the man had not brought it up himself. It is too easy for him to set a trap to try to gain more treasure and impossible for us to prove we did not fire first after being attacked. I brought you outside to test your mettle, in which you spectacularly failed. You attempted to offer shares in which no one in here previously agreed to. Nay, you are the selfish one who was doing only what HE wanted out there. Who here knows of why you were called upon or what your own motivations are? Who here can speak for you?"[/COLOR] Her laughter dies down and a bit of the glare returns to her eyes.[COLOR="#EE82EE"] “You are also wrong about me being weak, very wrong. If I had truly been having a weak or uncontrolled moment, you’d surely be dead where you stood for daring to speak FOR me and my crew and tampering with the crew's gains. I happen to know some of their reasons for needing this to be successful and I have been working tirelessly to help us all. I doubt you can say the same.” [/COLOR] The toothy grin returns to her face and she returns to casually leaning up against a barrel. An observant eye however would notice her hand sitting on her pistol. [COLOR="#EE82EE"]“Since I do not agree in any form that you have given a fair summary of what happened outside, and according to your words 'In that case you will never need serve beneath me’ you may feel free to show yourself out,” [/COLOR] she says waving her free arm towards the door, that infuriating grin still in place. [/QUOTE]
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