Snippet #1873068

Kaitsu had been coiling some ropes so that they would not create problems later, and so cause inefficiency, when the Captain spoke to her. Though she admired him greatly, she made no implication of it past the respect due to him because of his station. It simply wasn't in her nature, sure she deeply respected him, but she wouldn't show him more than proper, even if no one else would know of 'proper' ways of her people aboard this ship. She did have her pride after all.

However, when the Captain spoke the words “That said, we do have a problem to address. John is a drunk." A nearly out-of-character, sadistic grin covered her face and she caressed the handle of her short spear lovingly, as a mother might to her first-born male-child. She had been hoping she could met out proper punishment to a man who behaved so dishonorably, especially in public. She visibly deflated when Captain Fletcher, well, visibly if you knew how to spot the signs other than her grin disappearing into her normal stoic look.

"Ah, understood, Captain Fletcher-taishou. I shall do that as soon as we have set off so he cannot buy more before we leave." She watched the Captain move to talk to the carpenter/surgeon, Shaafir. She would talk to him next, perhaps he could check the storage below and make sure that the liquor was locked up well, and if not make something to rectify such a situation. She was planning to bring that man's alcohol down there and store it, after all, wasting food and drink was not efficient at all.

So, she waited patiently, with eyes like a hawk's, for the conversation to finish and for the ship to set off. Still, she coiled the rope that was easily as thick as her forearms, waiting and watching like a snake, though she had no such intentions to harm. Her eyes were sharp and 'unnaturally' colored, even for her people, and so she was often compared to carnivorous, hunting animals, so much so, and from a time when she was very young, that a thought like that was firmly rooted in her head. People were carnivores or herbivores, strong or weak, and there were no exceptions. To survive, one had to be strong, and so she was... Her gaze rarely wavered and it tended to make people feel uncomfortable, like herbivores, she called them in her mind, because saying something like that would be rude if they weren't your opponent in honorable battle.

She sighed a little, herbivores got on her nerves easily. They were weak, inefficient and tended to crowd... Ah well, Kaitsu supposed, At least this crew has its carnivores and I'm not the only hunting animal...