Jaina was going next to Grimson.

Feeling uncomfortable, he watched her intensely.
She moved like an elegant woman of the higher lair.
Well, if she had a relationship with Prince Arthas Menethil, she must have been one.

"Ya be starin' a lot, Yaen.", Adric whispered. "But I got de betta view!" He grinned and pointed at Kheay's butt. "See every curve from here."
"Get your damn eyes off her!", he whispered hysterically and tried not to put his hands on the dwarf's eyes.
Which wasn't necessary in the end at all.

"Adric.", Tuula looked down at the dwarf but her look was extremely intense. "You. Little. Bastard."
"What happened?" Kheay turned around curiously. Tuula only rarely used words like that.
"Adric just admitted that he is looking at the...curves.", the draenei woman answered. "He pointed at your butt to make Yaen look at it too."

Kheay laughed and the rest of the crew looked to them.

"What is it?", Lian's sister Mara asked.
Adric began to go faster until he reached Grimson but even he and Jaina turned around.
"Guys, train some respect in de presence of a lady!", he said, his look saying 'We're going to have our military lessons again, yay' . "Milady Jaina Proudmoore surely does not want ta wait for ya idiots ta stop fightin' about pointin' at some nightelf butts!"

Kheay's cheeks started getting red but so did Adric's.

Yaen smiled a second but stopped when Jaina's look fell on him.
He immediately stopped smiling but against every expectation, he could read sadness in Jaina's bright blue eyes.

Maybe he would get to talk to her later...

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"That was hella embarrassing, you idiot!" Kheay hunted the dwarf around the table. "Come here and I'm going to cut your damn beard off, right here, right now!"
"Oi, ya should know how much it means ta me!", Adric shouted and ran to his axe and took it.
Kheay did her evil laugh. "You...want to fight...me?", she asked and laughed again. "A healer?"
"Ya know, a paladin can be of great use sometimes." Adric took some steps forward.
But when the druid did not went back, he stopped and anxiously took a look in Kheay's eyes.

Funny thing about them was that they started to glow in some green lights.
Whenever someone looked into them they fell in a state of uncontrolled fear...except for Adric.
The dwarf was as stubborn as his hair in the morning.
He could withstand those eyes.

"Tell me again, since when do ya have these exactly?", Adric asked and put his weapon down.
"Since the Horde burned Teldrassil."
"Ah, so they burnt yar brain wi' it, didn't they?"
"This nothing to make jo- "

"Enough!"

Silence fell over everyone in the room...not only the crewmen.
Then Mara started to laugh.

Yaen groaned. "Not again..."
"Yes, again." Grimson grinned. "But they make a great mix, our voices, don' they?"
"Absolutely...beautiful.", Yaen replied sarcastic and left the table. "Don't wait for me. I'll be in the Mage Quarters and you will see me back on the 'Waterpard' ."
"I bet on yar word.", Grimson warned him. "If we cannot find ya on de 'Waterpard' , ya know what will be done."
"I know." Yaen sighed and left them behind.

Better if he would go to the docks already...

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"If it isn't Yaen from Captain Grimson's crew.", a woman's voice sounded and he turned around.
In the dark he couldn't tell who the person was but when she conjured a flame, he bowed, ashamed.
"I apologise, Milady, I did not recognise you...", he tried to explain himself but Jaina just made a gesture and he lost his words while she found hers.

"Don't apologise. I never expected something else from elves who control the 'nothing' .", she laughed quietly. "It's not an insult. Don't take it personally. Did Captain Grimson already told his crew which ones of you will support me?"
"No but maybe he's doing it right now..."
"Well, doesn't matter, you will see it either way." Jaina took his hand and pulled him further to the dock where her ship was laying.
He winced when she touched him.

On her ship, they stopped.

"Take a seat.", she invited him and pointed at a chair.
He sat down, she did so too.
"Before you ask me any of these questions that you surely have right now, let me explain first.", Jaina started. "You're here because you're one of my supporters. But I have questions. For example, what is your business in the crewmenship?"
"Actually everything except steering the ship, Milady." He laughed quietly. "Cleaning it, tidy it, cook, you can make me do everything except steering the ship."
"Hmmh, so this is why Grimson gave me you..." Jaina nodded thoughtfully. "Alright, I will talk to the others later. Can you tell me something about them though?"
"Tell me the names and I can see what I can do." Yaen gave the lady a faint smile.

There he was, talking to the lady herself.
Just the both of them.

"I got..." Jaina conjured a piece of paper and hold the flame closer to it. "...Adric on my list."
"Adric is a darkiron dwarf but let me tell you that that does not make him act less joking. I do hope though that you don't have Kheay on your list too.", he said.
Jaina took a look on it. "No, she will stay on Grimson's ship." A faint smile fell on her lips. "The 'Waterpard' ." She laughed a bit but calmed down pretty fast. "I'm sorry. But...this name is...gorgeous!"
"It sure is.", he smiled.

Jaina laughed, he told himself astonished. She laughed. Well, she has a beautiful laughter but when was the last time that someone saw her laughing?
Must had been while her time with the living Arthas...
So that meant she enjoyed his presence, didn't it?

"Alright, let's continue." Jaina coughed and looked at the paper again. "What's about...Lian?"
"She's the younger sister of Mara and both of them are born with strong magic power. Lian's power is fire while Mara's is the arcane. They are good cooks anyways but Lian is the better one of course."
"Do you have a...special bond?", Jaina asked carefully.
"Not at all, it's just a fact." He grinned at her.
"I see. Uhm...there's a man called Matthew too."
"He's our frost mage and cleans the ship. Sometimes he looks out for coasts."
"Tuula?"
"Our draenei. She's a shadowpriest and thanks to that she insisted to get the traditional voidelf clothes." He sighed. "She tried to control my mind without success but the next month I had a horrible headache so I gave her what she wanted."
"So obviously no relationship with her?"
"Never."

Jaina looked at the list and nodded again. "That was it. Thanks a lot."
"Not for that, Milady."

For a moment, silence reigned over them.
All they did was to look in each other's eyes.

Suddenly, Jaina's flame vanished.

"I...I need to finish some work now. Feel free to look around.", he heard her voice and steps.
"May I go to the 'Waterpard' too?"
"S-Sure."

Smiling, he left the ship and stepped on the dock.
Well, if it wasn't working well...
It seemed that Jaina became nervous from looking in his eyes.
Of course she did.
Maybe he reminded her of Arthas...