Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-4681758-20150822030556/@comment-26362067-20150915215713

While walking away, Hebline spotted one of the Faunus boys from the docks--specifically, the one who'd thrown the knife.

Didn't think I'd get that lucky, she thought, making a subtle path to him. From the way he was searching through the pockets of his coat, and the fact he was on a stage with a human-sized box, she gathered he'd just been the unlucky victim of a thief or thieves.

"Let me guess, they took everything valuable and ran?" she asked to get his attention. "I'd offer to track them down for you, but from the way you threw that knife on the docks, it seems you know how to take care of yourself. Or did they take your weapons too?

"Speaking of that event, though, I have to congratulate you on a job well done. You not only got the thug's attention off of that Faunus, but did so without making it obvious you were the one who did so. Very nice, if I do say so myself. I've never been that stealthy, and probably never will be, with my habits." Hebline grinned at him--a genuine grin, not the sadistic one she usually wore.

"Oh, and if you wanted to beat those thugs yourself, I'm afraid I already took care of that, though they weren't much of a challenge," she went on, jerking her right thumb over her shoulder to the men, and several women, she'd beaten practically senseless. Few of the bodies were actually in the square itself, a few obviously spilling out from the alley nearby, where the fight had started and where most the now-dazed thugs were, though their bodies couldn't be seen. "It's amazing what a few insults and broken bones will do to a person, eh?" The Huntress's next smile was a little more sinister, the scars on her face seeming to darken a little.

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Kaili had been expecting a crowd. She just hadn't expected so many.

"The Wolf Raven's back!"

"Captain Hart! Long time no see!"

"Where have you been?"

"Well I'll be, it is the Wolf Raven!"

"Oh my, is that really her? She's really back?"

"Find any treasure?"

"Yeah! What have you guys been doing?"

"Tell us!"

That cry soon took hold of the crowd, as all of them found themselves wondering where the Wolf Raven and it's captain had been, and what they'd been up to.

"Tell us! Tell us! Tell us!" Kaili had to muster all her willpower to not cover her ears or strangle someone.

"Crowds," the captain of the Wolf Raven muttered to herself, though no one would have been able to hear her even if she spoke normally. "Always wanting to know everything." Kaili then signaled her first-mate.

The first-mate quickly picked up on the signal, her dual pistols out in a moment. She shot them once, into the sky, startling the crowd. "Quiet down, the lot of you!" she shouted before the crowd could start up the cry again, her pistols already back in their holsters.

The crowd stayed silent, but still looked around for the captain that hadn't been back in years, soon going into an uproar again.

Kaili was gone.

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Kaili sighed in relief. She'd taken advantage of the confusion her first-mate had bought her to slip off the ship and into the crowd itself--taking off her cloak and hat, of course. Both would've been a dead give-away of her identity.

Now, the young adult captain leaned against the wall of an alleyway, having taking the second uproar's confusion to slip away again, off the docks. A bag leaned on the same wall beside her.

All that was left was to go to her home here in Hammerhead Cove. Preferably without people mobbing her with questions.