From Sea to Shore! [Public/Ulv]

She was fully hesitant to speak up about it, but Ulv started saying a lot of things that didn't make sense or weren't at all relevant to Ania, and she seemed serious and heated about it, so it was better to speak up. Besides, what was Ulv gonna do with her real name? Shout out a demon spell that binds the two together for all eternity using her name?

..... k... Fine. My real nehm's Ania Khshesh."

The question of how she was to be helped was still in mind. It was nice that Ulv was going to help her, but how? She already said it was better to keep Ania away from power, and the girl was still pretty mad about that, but she knew better than to bite the hand that--literally--feeds you. In fact, she even took the rare step forward to actually ask herself.

"How're you gonna help? Are you gonna beat up de people I wanna beat up? Because I wanna be de one to do it myself."

Ania's spirits dropped, and her soul felt like it literally fell out of her body. She paused for a moment, to come to terms with the horror of what had just happened. Hobbs's mandible dropped as though he understood the implications of what just happened. Then, Ania fled.

The girl immediately jumped on top of Hobbs and reared him backwards, and the two sped off desperately back towards the ship without looking back.

Ania started closing in on the ship, turning around more than a few times to look and see if Ulv would chase after her. Nothing so far? Good. Keep going. The ship was close and escape seemed inevitable now. By the time she arrrived to the ship, Ania ignored every distraction and jumped on, Hobbs ramming into the front of the ship to push it backwards before running onto it himself. Without missing a beat, they were starting to sail away.

It was only until Ania actually physically bumped into the unrecognise woman that she noticed them. The girl stared at the woman, dumbfounded and confused as to how she was here, but a proper reaction was soon after prompted. Ania ran to the side of the ship and picked a sword off the floor, pointing it at the woman in the center. Then, she spoke fairly unexpected words. Words not typical of an actual stowaway.

"Eh? Uh, yeh, a lil' bit a' distress. A wild demon missus just cursed me and used me nehm. I gotta get outta here, missus. Please leave m'boat."

Again, Ania was dumbfounded. This lady said that Ulv was the mayor? What kind of mayor baits young, unsuspecting kids with a nice meal, then turns it all around to cast some terrible magic on them? Ulv sounded less like a mayor, more like a witch in the forest. Thankfully, it seemed like this lady was saying it was all a prank. Ulv was a vizard, not a demon. Then again, Ania was already tricked once before; who's to say this woman wasn't a familiar of the mayor, and that they were just baiting her to come back? Ania didn't let her guard down--nor her sword.

"Is 'dat so? How do I know I can trust you--what's your real name? Your true, original name--I'll know if you're lying."

That was a lie. Ania wouldn't know if she was lying; the girl was pretty bad at being able to tell. This woman could be a witch, too. She wasn't even rocking with the boat. That's surely a sign of voodoo mumbo jumbo. Ania knew a witch when she saw one; she was pretty sure that woman Cyng who was in charge of the homeland now was a witch too.

Honestly, the explanation was confusing. Ania understood the words and what they individually meant--not so much the entirety of the phrases. At most, she figured the woman was saying "follow your heart", or something obnoxiously simple like that. It annoyed the girl, but it didn't sound like she was lying. She honestly didn't know for sure, but in the back of her head Ania was also considering whether she could do anything about it. If she was lying, then the woman was probably lying about letting her go too, and it's not like Ania was strong enough to prevent that now that the two were trapped on the boat. Maybe Hobbs could, but Hobbs was a dumb, docile kitty. At least, that's how she saw him--he knew she saw him like that, though.

"Okay. Fine. You're not lying. I have a lie detector ability I usually don't tok about, and it determined that you weren't lying. Hobbs, starboard forward 49-East oscar roger!"

In response to Ania's absolute babbling, Hobbs motioned forward as if he understood the commands and pushed a leve on the control board of the ship. The vehicle motioned forward to hit the harbour yet again, and Hobbs hopped back onto the port with a rope in hand to tether the ship to ground.

"So should I go back now, or someting?"