. jeered at by men, laughed at by women. It was a most humiliating experience. We seemed to have become little more than a****ls.A wretched night in a... stone cell passed slowly. All of us were utterly depressed. Defeated. It was already difficult to recall how proud and strong we had once been. Morning came at last and, with it, a guard. He carried a sheaf of papers. „Leo!“ he called out and my heart stood still.I got up off the floor and stood to attention. „Sir,“ I said. Already I had learnt. For a split second she almost fled the scene. There were two empty chairs on either end of the table that she could easily push out and she could run from the room without looking back. Thinking that she had been pissed on, especially so close to her mouth, had really unsettled her and had her second guessing her decision. But when she looked down at the small puddle on the floor, she saw that the liquid was clear instead of yellow. She also could smell the fluid and although it had a strong. The place had been a working class bar forever, but when the economy went bad and manufacturing dried up, all that was left were the unemployed and the retirees. The owner was just about to shut it down. He must have come up with some money, because he remodeled, brightened the place up a little, and put in a state of the art jukebox with an amazing sound system. Gradually it went from retirees to young professionals, because the drinks were reasonably priced, and the place was right on the. “Adventurers! Pfft. Nothing like the sea to put ye to your knees. In any case, this top deck is only for crew. Ye’ll be staying in the cabins below, where it’s safe for ye land folk,” Wolgar smirked as he continued.“How long will we take to reach the Emperor of the Waves?” Aldalome asked.“About a week’s travel, if the weather gods treat us right,” Wolgar said.Ehs closed his eyes and muttered some words. Opening his eyes after a while, he said, “The weather will be fine today, we should not.