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Attention, Region Six. A draft is scheduled to commence on August 25th for five days following. Your location will be the West Central Ocean, en route to Kano Harbour via three ships. Choose a suitable captain for each, and the pilots will be programmed to follow your orders. Don't waste my time with incompetence, either. Put in charge only those who deserve it.

These are the residents who have been selected to participate.

[As usual, the list posted HERE is offered in text form, sans the mun names.]

Your mission is to protect the cargo ship above all else. Within three days you will reach your destination. Opposition numbers, rank, and skill are impossible to predict, however, their equipment often prevents them from attacking at night. Remain on guard, but take advantage of the respite you may receive by night. Upon reaching the harbour, the cargo will be unloaded. You are to continue protecting it until it is safely out of range of their attacks. I would advise against swimming unless you want to die.

For those of you who were involved in the last draft, I have only one thing to say: your performance was acceptable.

Over and out.

[Once again, the commandant will not reply to anything but draft-related questions or particularly inspiring comments, so if you're looking for a response, be sure to give her something worth answering!]

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I've read stories about all kinds of mythical creatures. I like them best. [Mostly because she used to live in a place without trees, an ocean, sunlight... fantasy was her best escape. It didn't hurt that at home, she looked like a mythical creature, had friends who looked like beings from her stories...]

I've never actually met one, though.

They're....

[Words words words]

Very beautiful. And hungry. Very hungry much of the time. I took one to dinner, once---Marina. Took her to dinner right by Whitecap Bay. Candlelight. Moonlight. Lovely.

[Then she'd learned he was sleeping with her sister Mariana and it had all gone to pot.]

That does sound nice... [Though Nill wouldn't exactly want to take a mermaid on a date, Mr. Sparrow might want to.] But aren't mermaids hungry for sailors? [She does remember something like that. But Nill always assumed that if she ever met a mermaid, she would be safe--since she isn't a sailor. ~~Logic.~~]

They....aye. Peckish at times for a bit of sailor. They wanted...other things, from myself.

Other things? Like human things? Combs and forks and mirrors and things like that?

Something like that, aye. Sort of. Funny creatures, mermaids.

They sound amazing. You're lucky to have met one, Mr. Sparrow. [And taken her on a date no less.]

[And to have SURVIVED.]

Luck travels with me most days. A helpful thing, that. There's one here in Luceti, you know.

[Well, yes. That too.]

Luck is a good thing to have. Especially if you're going to captain one of the ships.

There's a mermaid here? Where? I haven't seen them yet...

Aye---Keimi. She lives in the sea, so unless you've spoken to her there, I'm not sure whether you would have.

Oh, that's probably why. I've only been to the ocean once. [And given that she was attacked there, she hasn't been back since.]

I live by the sea. A bit lonesome out there at times, but it's alright for now. You might've seen my boat when you visited?

I thought I saw one... though I didn't spend much time there the first time I went. I met someone who didn't like me very much.

[Namely, Giovanni.]

Hmmmm? Who on earth would be silly enough not to like you, darling?

It's complicated. I guess he doesn't not like me in particular, he just hates my friend. He arrived in Luceti on the beach, and I was taking a walk, and he recognized me. And then I tried to run away, but he still got me.

[And that's why she didn't see your ship, Jack: because she was too busy being held hostage. ~~Again.~~]

He got....bugger. If I'd known, darling, I could've perhaps...

[Could have perhaps WHAT exactly? Jack doesn't know. He's not usually in the habit of rescuing people. There are exceptions to that rule.]

It's alright Mr. Sparrow. Everything turned out okay. Fortunately he didn't hurt me or anything.

Captain. Captain Sparrow. And that is good tidings, lovely, but if you're ever caught out there again, you give me a shout.

Oh, sorry! Captain Sparrow.

I would try, but I don't have a voice. I can try throwing something, though!

What's this? No voice at all? Erm...right. Don't throw anything, my house is practically made of glass. Just....jot down a note. That works.

None at all, I'm afraid. I was born without vocal chords.

...how did you build a house out of glass?

....Oh. Sorry, love. I--I didn't build it. A vampire family built it before my time in Luceti.

Oh... so you commandeered it! [Pirate books, she's read them too.]

Aye! Though I still haven't quite got the smell out of the curtains, yet, but Kennedy did me a great favor by knitting me up some new ones, bless his little pixie heart.

...what did they smell like? And I didn't know you could knit curtains. Or is that something only pixies do?

[voice]

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