Welcome to Gaia! ::

--Raina Cervantes--



Raina listened to his words like it was a song. The view was beautiful, but Raina was not one to watch the sky change for hours on end. She switched her attentions onto Juno. Being with him now, she realized that she didn't know much about the boy. He had already become such good friends with her and possibly the closest she will ever have to actually having someone else she could relate to. Not many burly sailors would want to talk to a fumbling little girl. Sometimes there are exceptions, but when survival is first priority in these tough seas, men would rather work than entertain a silly child. Juno and even the Captain have treated her with a different kind of hospitality. From that, she knew that this ship was definitely different.

"So Juno," she said, now looking at him. "How in the world did you get here on this ship?" Raina did love her stories.

--Raina Cervantes--



Raina watched as his eyes came downward. She could not force him to tell her anything that made him feel uncomfortable. Those words: "I ran away"... They reminded her of many of the other peasant children that sailed near her family's merchant ship. Many her age would only dream of a life that Raina was living now. Was Juno one of these kids who dreamed of an adventurous life at sea? Or, is it something else? Just for that moment, Raina curbed her curiosity, still hoping for a next time in the near future. She redirected the conversation.

"Really? I can't believe you snuck past the Cap'! How'd she find you out?" She already imagined the whole scene, with Captain Mara finding Juno in some sort of narrow crevasse in the ship; out of rigid compassion she decides to keep the happy monkey boy. Raina smiled at the thought. The Captain has a sympathetic soul to her. The fact that she took her and Jesep in as guests only shows that sympathy; a sympathy that is shown in one of the kindest of gestures.