Stavanger Bay Your yelling's getting loud, keep it down now

She supposed no one really abandoned from her old crews, so she could relate.  She had known captains who kept their underlings in line by fear, and by encouraging them to turn on one another for a leg up in the ranks. She'd just never been much into playing those games.  She got the sense, from the way he spoke of it, Raptor hadn't been fond of that sentiment either.

"Well, that makes two of us," she said with a comraderic smile.  "I've had a bit of luck myself, to get here." There had been little daring about her path to here after her rise, just a series of misfortunes and lucky breaks.  "I wondered if you might be family, like he and Sandpiper."  She was honestly a bit relieved he wasn't, though she tried not to show it too much.  That was probably why he wasn't angry about things... and that alone put him solidly on her list of at least potential friends.