After the ten years are up they can negotiate for more. One child on this pirate ship might be considered eccentric. Two would be asking for serious trouble.
Elizabeth backs away from the rail, eyes drifting up to her flag flapping in the wind: beside Sao Feng's red skeleton is a larger disembodied arm with a sword. The new symbol means power. The more she looks at it, the better she feels.
"I suppose this means I'll be able to plead my belly, as they say, should we be captured," she remarks, smile turning sly.
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Date: 2009-08-22 01:20 pm (UTC)After.
After the ten years are up they can negotiate for more. One child on this pirate ship might be considered eccentric. Two would be asking for serious trouble.
Elizabeth backs away from the rail, eyes drifting up to her flag flapping in the wind: beside Sao Feng's red skeleton is a larger disembodied arm with a sword. The new symbol means power. The more she looks at it, the better she feels.
"I suppose this means I'll be able to plead my belly, as they say, should we be captured," she remarks, smile turning sly.
It's possible she just made a joke.