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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5686223" data-attributes="member: 4936">Tara Everett was a relatively new addition to the crew, and an unusual sight on shipdeck; a young woman. After a long talk with the captain though, and the men still sniggered over what the contents of that talk might have been, she was brought on as a deckhand. She wasn't afraid of hard work and she did her job. She wore an overcoat, even when doing bilges or swabbing, though it must have been ungodly hot, and kept her windblown white hair short as a boy's. The effect of it though was that the crew slowly stopped thinking of her as a woman. Most of the lads called her 'Everett' now, by her last name.She'd come to the Throaty Mermaid with no one at dock to see her off and just a handful of possessions with only one that seemed particularly valuable...her pistol. It was a thing of beauty, made so that the barrel resembled a dragon's neck with its mouth open wide around the hole at the end. Every scrape on every scale was there in blue lacquer, and it was inlaid with a strange silver metal that reflected little rainbows when light hit it. Wisely, she didn't show it off casually. It was tucked in her sash though when she came to heed the captain's call. She ducked in through the door the way she always did...quietly and unobtrusively; the manner of one who preferred not to be noticed. She then nodded at Kolto (though it took her a moment and some squinting to find him) and Tellethel, acknowledging them without actually engaging with them, and leaned back against the wall to wait on what the captain's orders were.</blockquote>

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