"Apparently not," Sileas said. "I wonder what set him off."

"His chuffin' time of the monff." Questa guessed.

Sileas did her best to hid her snicker.

Yehudit blinked. "But guys don't have..."

"Some do, all the bleedin' time. And they're usually wearin' uniforms." Questa said. Speaking of uniforms one of Portside's own guards hurried past. Questa instinctively touched her shiv. It had been a few years and she was not ragged as she had been, even if she still wouldn't wear shoes, but there were still guards who would like to arrest her for theft even if she hadn't killed anyone.

"Sure they do. Just not quite the same as the way we do," Sileas told Yehudit.

"Oh." Yehudit wondered if that was why Lek was so emotional right now.

Juniper continued to search aroud the docks until her eyes set upon the group. She was angry at their readiness to ignore the abuse of power  that she stopped earlier and decided to approach them." What was that all about? You guys ran without helping the poor man!"

"I was trying to keep my cousins out of harm's way and out of the chances of arrest. Furthermore, I don't have any idea of what that man may have done. He may have posed a danger to the people here. Or us," Sileas stated calmly. "Further, I had been trying to contain things so I could find out what was going on, and keeping the other sailors out of the fight so I could safely do so, but then everything went out of control."

"Your' idea of containing a violent occurrence is to stand by and watch? Ive been here a few hours and im already disgusted." Juniper spoke with her hands, pointing back and forth between the group and the location of the fight behind her.

"Well obviously you missed me holding the other sailors at bay and telling them that it was one of the King's men. I wasn't about to get into the fray when there was a large group of sailors ready to brawl rolling in."

" If the knights cant handle a few drunkards then what kind of pansies you have protecting the kingdom? So weak they have to get some wee lady fight their battles for them!" With that Juniper poked Sileas in the chest with her finger.

"I've been 'ave a lookin' ter get a new finger ter replace the one I lost." Questa threatened, drawing her shiv.

Yehudit got angry.

"Nobody pokes Sileas!" Yehudit roared, raising her walking stick to give this woman a good wallop.

Juniper drew her jagged sword very slowly as she locked eyes with the two. The sword was too large for a normal sized man, however Juniper wielded it with great ease." Those sound like threats"

"Can't yer 'ear me up there, squire? They are freats! Struth! Keep yor nose ter yorself or yer'll regret it." Questa warned.

Yehudit's rage exceeded her sense. Whump! Her walking stick hit the woman's leg.

Sileas stepped between the tall woman and Yehudit and Questa, pushing the sword up. "The knights are perfectly capable and it was their job to restore order. My job, as I said, is to protect my cousins. You have no idea what we have been through in the past twenty four hours, none of us are in the mood for another fight. But keep pushing and you might find one." Sileas' eyes flashed.

Lek burst into tears.

"Not another fight!" Poor kid had lost most of his family and all he wanted was to find a sailor to help him find his father.

Yehudit's temper was up and she tried to get past Sileas.

"The sotah made Lek cry! Let me smash her face!"

The walking stick bounced off of Junipers thick leather armor, giving no pain. She looked deeply into the woman's challenging eyes for moment before sighing" Im sorry. " She sheathed her blade quickly." That was immature of me. I apologize"

"Better be sorry." Questa grumbled. She lowered her blade but her shiv stayed in her hand. She had been in too many street fights where her enemy tried to disarm her with a fake apology.

"I apologize as well. It truly has been very trying for the past two days and we only came to the docks for information." Sileas reached over and lay her hand on Lek's shoulder. "In fact the knights were supposed to be guarding me, which is why I suspect that man made some sort of threatening move but I honestly didn't see what happened. There was no need for those other sailors to be in danger of arrest when remaining knights could have controlled the situation." Sileas sighed. "Unfortunately, there doesn't seem anyone with this ship who is inclined to fin out what we might  need."

Yehudit was not mollified. She gave a string of curses from behind Sileas. She was getting herself so worked up she looked like she might start hitting Sileas next just to get her out of her way.

Lek wiped his eyes with his sleeve and tried to toughen up.