Inaga's Story

Audrey gasped for air, still squeezing her eyes, even though she just woke up. She pulled back her soaked hair.

"What the..." she mumbled in shivering voice.
"Wakey wakey, my apprentice!" a middle-aged, well-dressed man holding an empty wet bucket yelled cheerfully.
Audrey was about to ask a question when she let out a grunt once a suitcase was thrown at her lap. Two smaller ones landed near her bed.
"We're moving, Audrey!" the man announced. "Come on! Get up! Don't look at me like you're trying to solve a math problem! Just when I thought you finally stopped doing this after all those years! Change your clothes first. You're all wet! And you can't go out on a new adventure dressed with this horrible nightgown!" he said and went out of the room.

Soon after, Audrey entered an empty room.
"What... happened to the shop?" she asked in disbelief.
"Don't you even listen? We're moving!" the man grabbed her shoulders.
"But... Where are the weapons?"
"They're not here!"

A moment of silence filled the room.
"Have we bankr..." Audrey started, before the man's large, ring covered hand silenced her mouth.
"We're just in a hard period, my apprentice! The store here is no more, but we'll find something!" he said, released her mouth and wrapped his arm around the shoulder, while moving his other one like he's pointing the environment. "Great future awaits us! Our nights will be spent on the steets, but we'll have plenty of options! We can become slaves, then rob our owners and run away! We can become performers! We can try our a profession every single day! We can rob another shop! What do you say?"

"I... I can't do this..." Audrey mumbled.
"What?" her boss raised a brow.
"I-I'm sorry." the girl simply said and released herself from his grip. "I c-can't." she walked out of the empty shop.
The man opened the door after her.
"So you're leaving me? You ungrateful brat! Who kept you under his wing in the last five years? Me!"

Those words caused Audrey to stop walking for a second and sight.
"Goodbye." she spoke without turning and continued walking.

"Ugh..." the girl covered her face with both of her hands.
"Alright, let's just find a home and a job..." she thought to herself. "My experience is with weapons... and... selling... that's all."

Audrey's eyes widened once she saw Gibbs' blade against someone else's throat.
"Such a scene gets me every time." she thought. "I hope I didn't make a mistake. Well, I'm taking a risk whatever I do, so..."

A little later the captain of the ship spoke. Despite not hearing of it often, Audrey easily took the fact that she's a female. The thing that concerned her more was...
"How old is she?" Audrey thought.

Then she finally thought about her place on the ship. What would her job be like? A mopper? Someone's mate?
"Wait... I've been working in a weapon shop for five years... Alright... we'll see. Get yourself together. You can handle it."