>"No, I, dear lady." Jac says, "I think, no I know, that Akus Moby had
>done work for The Black Marble in the past. Aunt Mazie told me that, and
>yes, I am here to keep an eye on you all, but I'm not a member of the
>aforementioned organization. I'm just a simple busy body here to see to
>it that you don't try to sell off the ship or skip before your seven
>years are up."
>
>He chuckles, "Not that I'm likely to be able to stop you if you did."

"Ha!" She says, "They'd have to do it over my dead body. And don't worry, I 
don't mind having you around. You're more courteous than most of these 
louts and you're easy enough on the eyes."

She puts her hands on her hips and looks around appraisingly, "Actually, I 
don't think I've ever been on a ship with quite so many 'easy on the eyes' 
running around." She grins and tilts her head looking at the ladies this 
time, "Or quite so much lovely competition for them either!"

"But I digress." She leans over then, putting her hands on Woof's shoulders 
for him to lift her down.

She smooths her dress in place, "Anyway, yes, we have a lot of pieces but 
we've sort of neglected to work on fitting them together and finding out 
what other pieces they might lead to. I sort of thought that we could focus 
our attentions and maybe even our route better if we had a better idea of 
what we wanted to accomplish with all of that alongside making money and 
keeping the Mae Lee running."

Mira