The lines of gold and grey

~2~

How about that, a new cookie has entered the spot light. Giving a stern look while getting his ear chatted off by deckhands. Marching his way to a meeting he sure as hell didn't want to go to. What on earthbread was so important that there needed to be a meeting?

With his hair part way up, as the rest laid down, he wears quite the stern look on his face, with a moustache perfectly over his lips. His eyes as red as some pirates treasure. It was Captain Caviar. With his coat over his shoulders, and a cigar in hand.

He trudged his way to the meeting hall almost reluctantly, not really wishing to go since it's always a bickering fight between the sweet and salty cookies.

Boring...

.. Boring..

... Boring.

Wait- a chat about a pirate...? Now that was something that peaked his interest, immediately going from slouching away right to leaning into the conversation.

"Now you mean to tell me that there is an 'infamous pirate' goin' around, that I hadn't seen or heard of before...? That's new...!"

"You haven't even heard about this? You are the navel captain, how did you not know of this?"

"Well, maybe because unlike you folks, I don't pay attention to what you say most of the time, nor do i care much for anything unless it shows a direct threat to me, and doesn't sound like some cheap folktale."

Caviar practically jumped out of his seat with enthusiasm, a grin showing wide on his face as if he was about to brag, which he was.

"Callin the shots now, if you just give me a couple weeks I will be sure to have this wretched pirate in a cell with shackles on while y'all sit around and look pretty doing nothing!"

Before anyone could try to get an extra word in he had already taken off, honestly for him it was a 'get out of meeting free' card. And he was not about to pass that up as he high tailed it to his ship.

"Get all set gang! We have quite a voyage ahead of us!"

"Well the cap'n has a new task at hand ey? Whadya think it could be this time?"

"Personally I think the captain actually was given something to do."

"I betcha my satchel of coins, that he wos just lied to so the others can get the cap'n out of their hair!!"

Caviar loomed over the two chatting deckhands.

"We'll be going up against a pirate, hows that for a reason i am out here huh?"

"Captain, don't you think it would be considered much for them to send you out here over a pirate?"

"Yeah, dontcha think they were just lyin to ya?"

Caviar only sighed at the two shaking his head, dragging the two onto the ship by the backs of their coats.

"Lie or not, it gets me out of meetings for a while.. now lets get going, right now."

"NOW?! But what about lunch??"

"We already had stuff packed you numbskull!"

As the deckhands started going back and forth again, Caviar had already started to set sail, as something caught his eye right in his preferal, when he looked over he saw nothing but a few ripples.

The only thing he has even thought of was just a fish or something in the water and shrugged it off, watching the republic shrink further away into the distance as they made their leave.