piratejournal | Voice - The Murderess is no more, all hail the Princess

[Link's voice is not what it used to be. Those that knew him before would have little chace of recognizing him on that alone now that he'd skipped puberty and gone straight to Hero of Time 17yr old body. His voice was deep, more bass than tenor, but manner in which he spoke held the kind of innocence his 10yr old mind had always had.]

Hello everyone.

This is Link, Cabin Boy of the- Sorry. That's what I wanted to let everyone know about.

The Charming Murderess has been scuttled. It's been a few weeks since we did it, but we decided that it had to be done. Our new ship is the Sea Princess. That was the name I picked and everyone voted for it!

[Which is kind of exciting!]

So now I'm not the Cabin Boy of the Charming Murderess anymore. I'm not a Cabin Boy at all! I get to join the watch rotation on the Sea Princess and help out with much bigger things.

And the Howling Sabers want to recruit more people, too! So if you need a crew, you should ask Miss Maggie to send you to our ship. It doesn't matter what you can do, I'm sure we'll be able to find a job for you! We could really use a cook, though. Someone who knows how to make a lot of good stuff with apples.

[Sorry, Sasuke. That's how he recruits.]

Thank you! Bye everyone!

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We cannot turn noncombatants into seasoned fighters in a matter of weeks or months, especially if they don't have the stomach for risk.

Sure we can! I never fought before I took up the sword and I'm great at it! It only took me a day!

... uh-huh. [He sounds deeply, deeply skeptical.]

And just how do you propose to teach your instant sword skills to someone else?

Put a sword in their hands and have them practice against rocks. Or barrels.

[Clearly it would work.]

... rocks and barrels don't fight back. Is that what you've been practicing on? [There's sudden dubiousness in his tone regarding Link's level of skill.]

That's all I ever practiced on at home. I don't have a sparring partner there and I had to practice on something before I could go after the monsters in the world.

[He doesn't count actual combat as practice, but then, he never seemed to need that much practice anyway.]

[The monsters in Link's world must be incredibly stationary, if he was able to be successful against them after practicing against inanimate objects, or Link must be uncommonly gifted. And lucky.]

Try this, then. If you find someone without any fighting skills, train them for a day with your method and then spar with them. See if it helps them as it's helped you.

[You know, that sounded like a great idea.]

Okay! I'll do that!

[Now he just needed to find someone to train. Some poor, sad, soul...]

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