ABANDON(ED) SHIP
We’ve had an SOS ping from a ship off the shore of Rivertide. The people on board could be in danger as the fog will begin to roll back in soon enough and they’ll be consumed. We need someone to go out and check on the vessel and either repair it or rescue those on board- if they are any on board.
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This ship, that had some kind of illegal blood money inside, was in danger and they were the ones going to check it out. "What if the authorities come in while we're there? Won't it be suspicious?" Eddy asked towards Honey as he stared nervously at the water below them. They were steadily moving further and further away from the Rivertide shores and with every meter further into the ocean Eddy felt more and more nervous.
"I really think we should just leave it. Surely Isaiah won't mind a little bit of loss money, he's rich right? Probably has lots of other money hidden around. And if whoever was on board decided to send a public SOS call- I don't know." Eddy was scrambling to try and find any excuse not to "Maybe there isn't anything on there that will get them in trouble and we can leave?"
He rambled possibility after possibility but still Three didn't stop moving. The large Dragonair fusion continued to sail through the water while Honey listened to it and eventually let out a very heavy sigh. While the younger man had been in Eddy's arms he reached down to uncurl himself and stand up. A vantage point that would let him look down at Eddy, and one that Eddy briefly admired for his balance. How could he stand on them so easily while three was swimming like this? Then they even crouched down infront of him in a way that Eddy was sure would result in him falling off.
"Eddy." Honey called out the name of the nervous man and he tired to take on as soothing of a tone for it as he could. "This is about the type of things they might find on the boat. Not about whether or not Isaiah can afford the boat's loss or not. Even if he is still rich, that won't do any good when him, Noir, and I are all in prison would it? They might even go for Celeste purely for how he's covered up our crimes."
The implication made him go quieter now. That... That wouldn't be good anymore. "You're all retired now from that life." Eddy said quietly. "And this is Rivertide- you're all in Brookfell?" Honey just sighed as the poor man continued his quiet argument and reached forward to smoosh his cheeks.
"People can still be arrested three years after the crime was committed, and even if Brookfell police won't come after us, Rivertide might put our a warrant for if we ever step in there." Honey patted Eddy's cheek once more before he let go and stood up straight to look back out around the ocean. There was nothing in sight now, the land that had been visible was now covered up by the horizon's fog. Not the purple fog, but a normal cloud fog.
There wasn't any more conversation after that, just an awkward silence as Eddy tried to wrap his head around this and Honey directed Three on what direction to go. Eventually the Eldegoss man was able to balance himself more comfortably on the back of the Dragonair and almost admire the ocean. Eventually a ship was visible in the distance and he frowned at the sight of it. It wasn't as big a ship as Eddy might have expected. For a ship of some, rich retired crime lord he had thought that it might be more like a yatch. But, it wasn't. It was a little sailboat.
"...That's it?" Eddy asked in disbelief as they came towards it.
"Yeah, that's it. Not what you expected?"
Honey asked this despite knowing that it obviously wasn't what they expected but as they got nearer the younger man started to get an uncomfortable feeling. Isaiah usually didn't have these ships left completely unmanned at all. Most times he would find someone who wants to live mainly out on the ocean and he'd pay them to do exactly that. Just take care of the ship, dock it at the night when the fog came in then go back out in the morning. Don't ask questions, and if you want to quit just let him know and you're free to go. Yet, as Eddy and him approached there was no one there.
Three brought them right up to the ship's edge and while Honey wanted to climb up first, he instead reached over to help Eddy stand up. "Try to touch as little as you can once we're on board." Honey warned them as he pulled Eddy towards the ship-side ladder. Eddy wasn't stable on the back of Three, his every footstep nearly resulted in him falling over into the ocean but Honey kept a hold on him to ensure he wouldn't drown.
"...Can't I stay on Three? I won't touch anything if I'm there."
"No." Before Eddy could argue anything more, he was being pulled up onto the boat.
