63 The Cabin boys initiation (1/2)
”…Ehh~? Big brother's a pirate?” Scipio called out in surprise as he sat on the deck of the ship. A happy Terrick sat before him nodding in approval.
”Aye, and with the captain's permission so are you!” Terrick grinned before messing up the hair on the malnourished Scipio's head.
”But…. There isn't anything I can do… Would I still be needed?” He said in a soft voice as he looked down at the mud brown deck of the ship.
”If you don't know, you learn brat. The crew will wait for you to arm yourself with knowledge. We aren't going to abandon you just because you don't have any experience with the pirate life, learn boy! Learn and use what you know to be truly free!!” Lorean called out, instantly falling into his role as the inspirational head of the crew.
At this point Lorean had pretty much resolved himself to having a crew dominated by small children and young adults. When looking at the age statistic of the crew, Terrick was infact the oldest at a stable seventeen. Fawkes stood at an average fourteen clocking on fifteen, and I stood third on the age line at a lowly ten. Sorren brought up the rear as a young nine year old. This of course discounted the ditzy and somehow elusive Angella and the newest addition to the crew the boy Scipio. Speaking off…
”Oi brat, how old are you?” Lorean asked, a thumb caressing the base of his chin.
”Umm uncle I'm ten why?” Scipio called back, his spindly arms on each other as he tried to ward off the cold winds that motioned the beginning of winter in the locale of the island.
”Nice, so we won't have to bother about you as much. Be glad you're that old, if you were any older most basic training would have been lost on you.” Lorean replied before dusting his hands off and moving towards the captain's quarters.
Mid walk however, he slowly looked back at the child on the deck, ”If you're going to be a part of this crew, you're going to need to know how to protect yourself. Until the end of shore leave, Terrick I am assigning to you his basic training.
I want him up to date on basic hand to hand combat and not be as weak as he is now. First thing tomorrow morning take him to Fawkes so he can fix a useful diet for the brat. He's going to be expected to clean up on deck and help Fawkes with the cooking. After that you can put him up with Sorren for a decent full body evaluation so I can set up a training schedule for him.”
With that he turned to the boy with an air of seriousness completely different from his previous jovial form.
”Boy, henceforth you shall be the cabin-boy to this crew, as such on the order of hierarchy you are placed on the bottommost rung, the more you know the better your situation shall become, with that when you have gained some asset apart from extra labor you shall gain a new office.