"I do not know what your mate did, but that is one of the King's own guard, so I wouldn't make any moves against him."

Juniper rolls her eyes at nothing and set her glass down on the edge" OI!" she shouts at the guard who was beating the sailor, trying to get his attention.

The knight let the funny faced sailor fall to the ground and turned on the woman who yelled to him. "What do you want?"

"Leave him alone you poncy git!" She waved and extended finger much to the delight of others on the ship with her. The drink she had been sipping had affected her judgement.

The knight's face turned red. He charged at the rude drunken woman.

Juniper watched the man approach with a haste speed and waited until he was close enough for her to sidestep him and extend her foot at his legs, tripping him." Well I never!" Juniper shouted, mockingly

Uncertain of who this newcomer was or why she had ignored the warning about the knights being from the king himself, Sileas did the only thing she could to negate their involvement in the whole thing. Especially since she had no idea why the knight had gone after the sailor. She dove in and grabbed Yehudit, bodily swinging her cousin over her shoulder. Sileas held Yehudit's walking stick in her other hand and took off. "Questa! Lek! Come on!" She wasn't about to explain to her aunts or her father how the four of them had ended up arrested, especially since even she wasn't clear.

"Hey!" Yehudit objected as Sileas's shoulder dug into her stomach.

Sileas ignored her cousin's protest and moved as far as she could from the fight without leaving the docks completely. Lek still needed his information.

With tears in his eyes, Lek followed Sileas. He needed to talk to sailors, but the knights were fighting with them!

Sileas wrapped her other arm around Lek. In a low voice, she whispered, "Dry your tears, don't show any weakness. We'll find someone we can speak with." Sileas spotted a merchant ship. At least it wasn't a pirate ship. "How about we try here?" She stood Yehudit on her feet and handed her her walking stick.

Lek sniffled and tried to pull himself together as he wiped his face with his sleeve.

"I think you broke my ribs!" Yehudit complained.

"You I'll deal with later," Sileas hissed. "I can't even BEGIN to imagine what you were thinking, doing what you did. I can't EVEN imagine."

"What?" Yehudit asked innocently, not getting why Sileas was so angry.

"I said I'll deal with you later," Sileas said. "Are you ready, Lek?"

Lek gave another sniff and nodded.

This isn't going to go well, I can feel it in my bones. Sileas let out a soft sigh. "Maybe I should do the talking."

"Okay." Lek said in a small voice.

Sileas shot him a quick glance. She had thought that might bring an argument, that he might want to be in charge of gathering information regarding his father. Sileas took a deep breath and approached the sailors unloading the ship. She looked for one who looked like the captain.

Juniper reached down towards the knight and picked him up by his collar and crotch, holding him above her head to the cheers of the sailors. The strangers running away caught her eye and she wanted to interrogate them. With a heave she tossed the stranger into the salty sea and tried to follow the others.

With all the heavy armor the knight sunk to the bottom. There may have just been a murder committed.

Juniper ran down the dock, trying to keep out of sight as she drew closer towards the group of people.

Two knights were working to save their fallen brother. One stripped off his own armor while the other commandeered a rope.

In reply to Sileas (msg # 118):

"Can't take knights anywhere." Questa muttered in disgust to Sileas.