The Buccaneers Bay

[jammi]

Despite Anderson's high spirits, Charles didn't look so happy. Slightly downcast in fact. He'd had to abandon his old bar surface when it was found it couldn't be moved from the old Bay on Trafalgar. He'd loved that bar surface - it's stained and pitted surface knitted together from the battered (and most importantly stolen) remains of cargo canisters. The brushed steel surface of the Leviathan's bartop was probably more hygienic by several orders of magnitude, but... It wasn't the same to Charles.

He sighed and morosely pulled the drink, setting it down on the surface, before trundling back to a stool in the corner behind the bartop to gloomily survey the room's occupants. It was slightly busier than normal due to the Buccaneers from Leeds sitting around, wasting space. It'd be a fair while before the last of them were back planetside, so they were earning their keep as an anti-boarding force that spent the day cycles patrolling the ship's corridors that were nearest to the external walls.

Just then King materialised from the room's shadows with a foul expression on his face, like some sort of fell wraith. He'd been with Anderson to help move the Outcasts and Corsair gunboats across the veil to the immortal plane, but he was in a foul mood for another reason.

That day trade hadn't been good. Paying trade anyway. A good few transports had gone the same way as the trio of gunboats. The second reason was that he'd been on Planet Leeds for the last week as well. He'd received some bad news from his family; the war was taking it's toll on them. They were considering joining the stream of refugees fleeing the system. The reason this was so bad was that this waste of time had meant that he hadn't been up in space earning more money, and the week out of the cockpit had made him rusty - his aim had suffered. And his performance today had clearly showed that.

Still in a foul mood he stole a drink from one of the displaced Leeds Buccaneers before slinking back into the shadowy alcove.

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