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poisonbite01
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Carrn listened, not surprised by her rush of words. She was excitable. She'd been on the boat half a day and it had already gotten around: the gnome was a chatterbox, and an eager one at that. So her rush didn't catch him off guard, and while he was gruff and surly and a bit smelly, he wasn't too rude, so he let her prattle on until she took a breath. She didn't, and he ended up listening until she cut herself off in embarrassment. He sort of understand that bit.
She was embarrassed that she knew so little about the ocean and how it work, yet had written about it, and while most of the crew had probably never heard of her or her books (Carrn had a suspicion that Durok knew. He might even have a few copies of her books), she was worried about how such obvious ignorance would reflect on her. To Carrn, it didn't bother him. The fact that she was embarrassed because she was speaking about romance to a male was lost on him.
"Don't worry about it, lass. Though if ye ask me, a romance on the ocean is not likely. Everyone's too close and too stinky. No time to bathe much, you'll soon find. Your's, and the two officer's cabins, are the only ones with showers. The rest of us have one, rarely used stall to share." He laughed at that, recalling he days when they couldn't afford those nifty little magic items that Sheng made. The crew had complained about the coin going to hygiene at first, but when they realized how great a bath after a month at sea felt, they quit their bubble-blowing. "Aye, yer more likely to find love at the bottom of the ocean than up here." He elbowed her then, and said "That could be yer next book! Maybe yer Hildi-whatsit capsizes his little canoe and meets a nice sea serpent lady!"
She was embarrassed that she knew so little about the ocean and how it work, yet had written about it, and while most of the crew had probably never heard of her or her books (Carrn had a suspicion that Durok knew. He might even have a few copies of her books), she was worried about how such obvious ignorance would reflect on her. To Carrn, it didn't bother him. The fact that she was embarrassed because she was speaking about romance to a male was lost on him.
"Don't worry about it, lass. Though if ye ask me, a romance on the ocean is not likely. Everyone's too close and too stinky. No time to bathe much, you'll soon find. Your's, and the two officer's cabins, are the only ones with showers. The rest of us have one, rarely used stall to share." He laughed at that, recalling he days when they couldn't afford those nifty little magic items that Sheng made. The crew had complained about the coin going to hygiene at first, but when they realized how great a bath after a month at sea felt, they quit their bubble-blowing. "Aye, yer more likely to find love at the bottom of the ocean than up here." He elbowed her then, and said "That could be yer next book! Maybe yer Hildi-whatsit capsizes his little canoe and meets a nice sea serpent lady!"