Stavanger Bay Waking the lions in me

Oblivious to the fact that Smokestep had given up his captaincy for some reason, Julep had kept to her own business as per usual. Her cousins were perhaps the only reason Julep had even come back to Blackrock at all, and with Piper gone she would need to hear out Smokestep's reasoning to make a choice about the Ironsea crew. She wasn't exactly what you'd call a social butterfly, so bonding was a particularly lengthy process for her. She hadn't yet found a proper reason to say she belonged where she was, but for all this thinking process to even begin Julep would have to hear what Rosalyn had to say.

She came from the northern stone cliffs where she had set up her tent a couple days before, and not being friendly yet with who she would soon find out to be the new captain, Julep chose to settle close to Zig (sharing the arena had to count for something). Unlike the casual nod that Rosalyn earned, Zig didn't actually receive a proper greeting. Julep just walk up to him with a cold stare and sat by him in silence. That was until the general silence turned awkward and she had to say: did someone die or something? in a voice level meant only for Zig.

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