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The Cruise Ship
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Miss Marie and Professor Stein enter next. Marie seemed surprised at all the people around her son, he was never very social. Stein, however, is as unfazed as ever. “Come on, you heard the captain. Let’s go get our tickets checked.” he says, taking Stitch’s wrist and calmly leading him past the weapons and strange people. Marie and I meekly follow, though she couldn’t see me.
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A middle aged man, neither short nor tall, nor thin or fat, sits on one of the chests used to keep life jackets. He smiles and waves to each person as they come over, encouraging everyone to have a seat and make themselves comfortable, theres plenty of life jacket boxes to go around. “Is everyone here?” He asks, standing up and straightening his uniform.
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Putting up her sword, Marina shoved Selena onto one of the life jacket chests. “Stay there. If you move even an inch, Selena, I’ll have your tail.”
Selena shivered nervously as her mother joined them, smiling cheerfully. Rakelle wasn’t far behind, a small smile of amusement playing about her lips, too. “Always getting in trouble, Selena. You can put your weapons away for now, at least-those Hounds have been completely confined in the ship’s Boiler Room.”
“Good. At least this one” Marina slammed a hand down firmly on Selena’s head, making her wince “can’t get into any more trouble, now.” Her sword began to glow a bright, brown light, which then streamed into a tiger’s eye jewel around her right ankle. “Weapons away, Selena-now.”
“Yes, Aunt Mari.” Flushing underneath her fur, Selena did as she was told, giving her bow and arrow quiver the mental command to turn to light and store themselves in the blue lace agate bracelet at her wrist, noticing that Larina was doing the same thing, too.
“No need to be so hard on her, Marina. She’s only a child, after all.”
“A child that almost got herself killed, Larina. And you know that she’s my responsibility until my own daughter is born.”
Keeping her head down, Selena sighed as her mother and aunt continued to argue with each other about how strict Marina was being with her.
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Stitch and his family sit down, and I sit down beside him. Jameston chooses not to appear, maybe just to make Marie mad. She had gone to the trouble of buying a ticket for the little demon, but he was probably just going to wait it out.
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Yukari, Ran, and Chen take their seats – Yukari and Ran next to each other, Chen acting like a cat, laying down on Ran’s lap. Yukari had to use her gaps to ensure Ran’s giant fluffy tails could actually fit in the seat.
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Selena smiled at the sight of the cat girl lying in the lap of the Nine Tails female. It was something she often did with Larina, whom she saw as a mother, and who was considered to be Selena’s mother, despite the fact that she wasn’t. Larina was also smiling. “To think that just six short weeks ago, you were that size, Selena. Our people grow up all too quickly, unfortunately-if only we could afford to slow the growth process down a bit, we could enjoy our childhoods a bit more.”
Marina snorted. “Impossible, Larina-we need all the fighters we can get.” Her ears flicked backwards before moving forwards again, and she sighed. “But you’re right-two months is nowhere near a long enough childhood.”
“I don’t mind at all.” Selena smiled up at her aunt cheerfully. “I like being big enough to help you and Mother, Aunt Marina.”