[She watches him go, and she doesn't follow; there's enough of dismissal in his words when he says those things. There are appreciative glances from the men who walk by her, appraising, the kind of look she gives a bracelet or a piece of silver.
She doesn't remark.
Instead she takes her time. Goes back, finishes her day out. Does not go back to the whorehouse, where Jack is undoubtedly trying to figure out his next move and discover if it's at the bottom of a bottle.
She makes her way up to the fort before sunset. She considers just slipping in, finding a shadow to hide her and sliding her way past the men, but ultimately decides not to. She is not a penitent. She raps on the door, and smiles her way in, all charming feline grace and teasing words. These men are not easily charmed, but these men also seem baffled by her, which works to her advantage.
Finding Charles, after that, is easy. There's someone guarding his door, some man who is missing a pair of teeth, and for that particular move she knows charm won't work. She just looks at him, flatly. The man leers. She sidesteps, quickly, and opens the door, moving so fast that he had no chance to catch her before she's inside and closing the door behind her.]
Why, Captain Vane, you look like a man recently rescued from a sinking ship.
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She doesn't remark.
Instead she takes her time. Goes back, finishes her day out. Does not go back to the whorehouse, where Jack is undoubtedly trying to figure out his next move and discover if it's at the bottom of a bottle.
She makes her way up to the fort before sunset. She considers just slipping in, finding a shadow to hide her and sliding her way past the men, but ultimately decides not to. She is not a penitent. She raps on the door, and smiles her way in, all charming feline grace and teasing words. These men are not easily charmed, but these men also seem baffled by her, which works to her advantage.
Finding Charles, after that, is easy. There's someone guarding his door, some man who is missing a pair of teeth, and for that particular move she knows charm won't work. She just looks at him, flatly. The man leers. She sidesteps, quickly, and opens the door, moving so fast that he had no chance to catch her before she's inside and closing the door behind her.]
Why, Captain Vane, you look like a man recently rescued from a sinking ship.