Ravensblood Forest I ran all night and day.

Oh hAI

Eartha was right in her thinking that a pirate would never leave the coast, for Kingsley had not strayed far from the shoreline in his search — too infatuated he was with the crashing waves, the screeching gulls and the gritty, coarse sand. Why, how could anyone ever leave? Of course, it was quite possible Alizarin resided much further inland than this, but Kingsley wanted to make properly sure that the young scoundrel was not hiding out somewhere here amongst the shore.

However, it seemed he wouldn't have to head too far from the ocean after all.

A woman's voice rose above the crowing calls of the woods — what did that little feisty girl call it? The Ravenswood? — all loud and angry and so very familiar. Kingsley immediately turned from what he was doing and took off towards where it had come from. Was that...Eartha? He hadn't expected to run into her again so soon, much less at all. Not to mention that name she called out sounded awfully like...

"Well, what a surprise this is!" he crowed, leaping onto the scene just as Eartha launched herself towards the auburn-haired boy. There he was, cowering before her, his back turned to the gunner who came up behind him, his scarred lips pulled into a gleeful smirk. What a lucky day this was, to find not only one traitorous fiend but two! He stopped at a distance from the lad so as not to get bowled over by Eartha as well, but after she had done her part, Kingsley would waste no time in surging forward to help pin the boy in place.

He would get all that was coming to him.