The Storyteller: The Tale of the Hunted

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Seventeenth Birthday

Sen settled quickly into ocean life, though her first year aboard the Cocoa Black only served to show her how much she didn’t know. The crew was patient, though, and quickly corrected her mistakes so nothing was amiss on the ship. The kids especially, three of them around the age of ten, loved to show off their knowledge to their new crewmates.

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The Storyteller: The Imprisoned Pirate

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Eighteenth Birthday

They didn’t bother to keep their relationship from the crew. It was far easier to just let everyone know, stop the boys from trying to romance them and not have to steal hidden kisses in the dark. The captain was only disappointed because it meant he still had to find reasons to keep his male crew on board until he could find some more female crew members. He even offered to marry them, but Kaiji asked instead that her mother do the honours. Captain Gendas said that was cheeky, being as they were halfway across the world at the time, but he agreed to detour through Jita on their next tax trip to Ryas.

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