"Nothing. It was just the only thing I could think of. "She's so unreasonable and consumed with hatred for me right now."

"Maybe she will calm down." Wulfsen said hopefully. "Your uncle Aron has no control over her, does he?"

"Sometimes he has a little bit, but I think he agrees with her that I should stay away from Yehudit."

"The fact that Yehudit has been completely unharmed during this trip won't mean anything?" Wulfsen asked.

"She wasn't injured when Aunt Lia started her tirade. But I don't know how she expects me to stay away from Yehudit or not take her somewhere when she follows me everywhere. You saw how she was when I said we wanted some privacy. At the keep when Questa and I were fighting that merman, instead of going for help she decided to try hitting someone with her walking stick and got it broken. Never mind that Questa and I could have been killed, it was my fault Yehudit was there. Never mind all the times I told her to go for help and she ignored me."

"I guess I could throw her in a cell." Wulfsen said reluctantly.

"She hate you forever. She already hates anyone who wears a uniform. And poor Papa, from what I understand, she hated him before he was even part of the guard."

"You were telling me about that." Wulfsen rubbed his forehead. "We can try your mother or your Aunt Aislyn- they've know Mrs Buckley for a long time, haven't they?"

"They've all known one another for years," Sileas agreed.

"If anyone can reason with her it would be them." Wulfsen said. "I wonder how things are going with 'Nelek'."

Back at the bathing area, Shawn picked up the pile of discarded rags and hung the borrowed items over a railing. Since Nelek couldn't see him where he was, he gently poked around in the borrowed clothing for any sign of a vial.

His ragged clothing seemingly deteriorated. He got out of the filthy water and wrapped a towel around his waist. He shambled over to a shaving mirror and started working on shaving off about five pounds of beard.

 Juniper had been seen pacing the ship for the past hour.  While the two neighboring crews had enjoy partying and getting to know each other, her thoughts only been consumed by the prospect of being discovered by a third less friendly ship.  She paced over towards her cabin and poked her head in observing the two gentlemen. One of them shaved as she approached him and placed a hand on his short shoulder.

"Looks good"

She continued over towards Shawn and spoke.

"How long do we expect to be sitting here?  I don't like the thought of both our ships meeting their watery end before their time."
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"If you don't mind the three of us joining for the return voyage, I can go up and send our ship on their way. We kind of forced a detour."

"Although my ship is fast it is rather small. I doubt we'd all fit in my quarters. Even if the lovebirds doubled up and shared a bed."

She gestured to the ship from end to end and sat on a barrel near the stranger. Although she trusted Sileas and her judgement, Juniper was still wary of her kin. If this man was anything like the knight in the docks then she may have to forcibly remove him from the vessel.

Shawn nodded. "I'll gather Lek, Nelek and Wulfsen and we'll return to the other ship. Nelek should be done his bath about now."

He headed down to the quarters. "Lek, if your father's about done cleaning up,  we need to head back to the other ship and get underway. I'll find Wulfsen and meet you on deck."

He had shaved, trimmed his hair and got dressed. He looked more human now.

"Papa, it's time to go." Lek said, tugging on his arm.

"Go ahead and take him over to the other boat while I find Wulfsen." Shawn turned and headed back for the deck.

He smiled. "Good, I can't wait to get there." He said and went up on deck.

Wulfsen slipped an arm around Sileas and lightly kissed her lips.

Shawn cleared his throat as he approached.

Wulfsen drew back and blushed when he saw Shawn approaching.

"Sorry to interrupt, but you and I need to return to our ship, my man. Both ships want to get out of here before there's any sort of trouble. Lek and Nelek are already going over."

"Okay." Wulfsen said and looked to Sileas. "Do you need help carrying any of your things?"