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a bit more about pirates on leave
Nov. 3rd, 2013 01:59 amMaggie resisted the urge to laugh. Doren just shook her head. Bernade shrugged again. "Never say I did not try to be generous when I had the money." She stuffed the bill in a pocket and sauntered out of the whorehouse. Doren and Maggie followed. Doren went with Bernade, and Maggie walked off to find a tailor.
She didn't realize until she got there that she had forgotten to tell Bernade that she wished to discuss the restocking of the Black Lightning. But in retrospect, as Maggie turned it over in her mind, there was perhaps nothing to discuss. Bernade had been quartermaster nearly ten months and knew what she was doing. She knew what the ship needed, where to find it, and what it should cost. Maggie had come to trust her, and so she should let the woman do her job.
At the tailor's, she ordered a new coat (red), two shirts (white), and two pairs of breeches (black). The tailor did not seem to know what to do with a woman who asked to be dressed like a man, but he showed her fabrics and took her measurements and promised to deliver her clothes before she set sail. She could not imagine that she was the first female captain or the first female pirate he had ever had as a customer, but Port Doras was home to pirates and buccaneers and corsairs from many places, and she knew that not every country had the same progressive attitude towards women on ships that she had grown up with.
( But she could still fill the Black Lightning with women. )
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She didn't realize until she got there that she had forgotten to tell Bernade that she wished to discuss the restocking of the Black Lightning. But in retrospect, as Maggie turned it over in her mind, there was perhaps nothing to discuss. Bernade had been quartermaster nearly ten months and knew what she was doing. She knew what the ship needed, where to find it, and what it should cost. Maggie had come to trust her, and so she should let the woman do her job.
At the tailor's, she ordered a new coat (red), two shirts (white), and two pairs of breeches (black). The tailor did not seem to know what to do with a woman who asked to be dressed like a man, but he showed her fabrics and took her measurements and promised to deliver her clothes before she set sail. She could not imagine that she was the first female captain or the first female pirate he had ever had as a customer, but Port Doras was home to pirates and buccaneers and corsairs from many places, and she knew that not every country had the same progressive attitude towards women on ships that she had grown up with.
( But she could still fill the Black Lightning with women. )
words: 1534
total words: 3682
