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She doesn't recognise that tree.
She's been here before, she's not that far from the estate, this isn't some unknown place. She must've taken a wrong turn, of course, but where? She should probably just try to retrace her steps, Jaol will be incredibly mad at her...
"Yeah, definitely..." A thought occurs to him. Before he can overthink it, he blurts out: "I could probably figure out a jutsu. That would. Not directly involve me. But still be - fun."
Dayo's doing this on purpose, isn't he. Tetsuma's blush is extending past the collar of his shirt. "Like. You know. With the wood jutsu. I can animate - things."
Ahhhh Dayo's worse than Tetsuma's kunoichi friends. "Though I'd need to practice, uh, a lot, to get it right, and I don't think the Captain would appreciate us using her ship as - materials."
"We'll have to check the departure time, but we could also wait until next dock. I got the impression they'd be fairly frequent. And I'd still like time to - think things over, and my jutsu development priority's going to still be a better transformation..."
"Yeah. And the jutsu definitely holds up to - minor stuff. Heavy petting, as long as I don't get distracted enough to drop it."
Tetsuma approves of kisses! He'll step a bit closer and get hands slightly involved, too, since talking's reduced some of the - jittery. Entirely above-waist so far.
They'll get interrupted after about fifteen or twenty minutes. Sarati clears her throat, looking clearly amused.
Tetsuma also pulls away, though he's blushing even more than before. "Uh - hello, Captain."
"Please keep hands above the waist, and all clothes on, in the main areas," she says wryly. "I came up to let you know that we'll be undocking in fifteen. I can turn the viewport transparent now, if you want." A pause, then: "Oh, and I would in fact be highly annoyed if parts of my ship were used for - jutsu."
He snorts. "You heard that, did you. So did you hear the part where we were wondering about—other crew?"
"Yes, though I wasn't paying careful attention. There's no other crew but me, though you could argue the ship as its own crewmember. It's capable of maintaining a straight course in calm currents, and can alert me to problems before they occur, so I can sleep at appropriate intervals. Though it's not built for long-term sailing, so we'll be docking about twice a week, ideally. Luckily this is a fairly close together cluster of islands."
"It really is! Ship design's one of my passions, but it's a very niche field in magic. This girl," she taps the hull, "Is practically my baby. Larger ships need a fairly substantial crew, and can't maintain course on their own, usually. She's pushing the upper limits on size for a one-person."
"That's really awesome. Closest thing to anything like this back home is artificers making artefacts and they're, like, much smaller stuff."
"Mind telling me more about your magic systems once we're set on a course? I'll trade, story for a story."
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