"I know, but they should be proud of you."

"Hm."

"You three have a boat, yes?"

"Yup."

"I... Had been planning to wait until I was older. But if, say, tomorrow my savings box happened to go missing and I follow you on whatever strange adventure you have, trading along the way to work my way up to having my own ship, that would be pretty great. I think I could... Face them with my head high if I had a ship."

"Hmm, if Gren thinks it's okay."

"The fact that I know you through knowing Hollo, and that Gren seems like a straightforward type, is most of why I'm considering. I probably won't actually go fishing tomorrow. I'll get your sail either way. Though if I don't come with you it'll probably be two hundred rupees, and that is actually close to the price I'll pay for it."

"Okay. Can we help you with the wood now?"

"Quite so, and I appreciate it, and I'll give you each two rupees for the work."

"Thanks. We'll go ask Gren about you coming with now."

"Hey, Gren, we might have a new crewmember."

"Really? Really? You go to yell at him about the fish... And now 'we might have a new crewmember'?"

"He's funny! And his parents don't appreciate him."

"...I'll be okay with it if he pays up for cheating you two on the fish. Two hundred more rupees, that's still low but at least fair-ish."

"Eh, we can get more fish easy."

"Yeah but it would show me that he's... What's the word... Acting in good faith."

"Is that important?"

"Yeah. If he is, it means I can trust him. If he's not, he might take all our stuff in the middle of the night and sail away or something."

"...I guess that's something to think about."

"Yeah, I get liking that he's tricky... But like you said with Tetra, there's good tricky and bad tricky. Got to make sure it's good tricky."

"We'll come back for him in the morning, then."

"Okay... Where do we even sleep?"

"On the boat? Under a tree?"

"We can ask the boat if he doesn't mind. I don't think I could sleep well in a tree but on a boat in that cave could work. I packed a blanket." She rustles her backpack. "He's not a super big boat, I don't know if all three of us could sleep there."

Suddenly, kittens!

"Oh, right. Haha."