Dami sighed and leaned against the wall of the blacksmith shop. She wished she could get away from her boring entourage. Even the horses pulling the carriages were dull and black. She knew, however, that as soon as she was gone for more than ten minutes, the royal guards would be sent out to hunt her down like a pack of mad dogs.
She glanced around at her surroundings. She didn’t know anyone here. The only people she really knew were all back in India. She had only just met her ladies a few weeks ago. And she certainly didn’t want to know them any more than she had to. If only she could get away from them…well, it was impossible, she knew. She sighed again and began to walk slowly back towards her carriage.
"I know just the hole in the wall Regina.." Alex said, smiling as he took her hand pulling her behind him. As he tugged her along he spotted someone knew, obviously someone rich. He patted Regina's hand, "Well love, I must attend to some buisness, I'm sure you'll be ok without me for time's being, it will be hard I know, but I'll see you again soon, I promise" he said smiling at her and blowing her a kiss as he strolled off.
Coming from behind he tapped Dami on the shoulder, " 'Allo miss, care to spare some coin?" he asked in his most sincere voice. He plotted in his head, he would take her gold as soon as she began to spare a coin, the whole purse, how he loved his trade.
Dami glanced at the man. He looked rather lewd. Maybe, she thought to herself, just maybe- no, one of her ladies had spotted her and was already whispering to a grinning guard. She glanced at the fellow again and said “Why of course. I haven’t my coin purse on me, though. If you would kindly fetch it from the green compartment of my carriage I would be much obliged as to give you a few coins.” Well, she consoled herself, a girl has got to have some entertainment in a day, hasn’t she? What can I help it if it’s at the risk of this man’s life?
Alex's eyes went from the girl to the gaurds, and then back to her he smiled. The little witch thought she could toy with him, what a joke this foreigner was. Alex nodded, "Aye lady, gladld.." he said, stepping towards the carriage. The gaurds slowly started to close in around him and he just smiled, slipping into the carriage, followed by screams from the ladies still resiging with in. He nodded a hello to them and started pulling out drawers until he came upon a beautiful silk purse. He opened it, smiled, closed it, and then swung from the carriage window, landing on top of it. He blew Dami a kiss as he backflipped from the carriage into teh crowd and out of sight. Gaurd chased after him, but lost sight of him and turned back, heading to their headquarters to start printing bounties. It was the four thousandeth bounty Alex had seen and he was proud, even more proud to see the beautiful purse's contents, a massive amount of shining gold.
Dami laughed as the fellow slipped out of sight. He had certainly brightened up day. She was definetely greatful for that. Not to mention the hilarious uproar he had caused among her ladies and guards. Each one had a different story, most including deadly weapons or a murderous army or, Dami's favorite version, an insane madman with seven arms and a mouthful of snakes. She stepped into to her carriage, grinning immensly.
That night, Dami tossed and turned. She could not get to sleep. It wasn’t the bed. The Inn was the finest around and she had been given the best room. It was something else. “The window!” she thought aloud. She nimbly got up and went to the window. It was a cold night. Very windy. All of the sudden Dami got and idea. “I could run away! No one would know until tomorrow!” she spoke to herself in a quiet whisper. “…But what would I bring?” she wondered, looking slowly around the room. Her eyes stopped on her yellow jewel incrusted trunk. It was filled with many gold coins, she knew. She also knew she wouldn’t be able to make much of an escape if she had to lug around a large trunk that took three men to move in and out of her carriage. But she could bring a lot of it in a smaller case. She went to the other side of the room where her jewelry case was resting on her vanity. As you can imagine, it was quite large, for a jewelry box. She opened it up and carefully emptied it of its contents. Then she brought it over to the yellow trunk and half filled it with gold coins. In the extra space she packed some of her less flashy and expensive-looking saris. She would buy some other clothing garments at the tailor as soon as she had time. She was done packing so she crept out of her window and went in to a small forest nearby. She would hide there till her people moved on.
Regina had gone back to the ship. Sitting on her bed she lied back. The door to her room was open and she like it that way. she could listen to people talk about everything. Being one of the few women on Jack Sparrow's crew was stressful. Most of the guys gave her a hard time, but some liked her. She laughed to herself as she heard an old friend tell off someone who was trying to start a rumor about her and the captain. She never liked Jack that way. He was like an older brother. Bossy, but he always knew how to have fun.
The next morning Dami got up and went to town. There were posters of her saying she'd been kidnapped, and if you knew any info, they would be located in the next town looking for her. Dami could not beleive her luck! They thought she'd been kidnapped! She strolled gaily into the tailor shop, after taking down every last poster around town. The tailor looked up at her quizically. She laid down a few gold coins and he got busy taking her measurments.
Alex strolled along the streets happily taking down each of his bounty posters. He successfully pilfered them all before too much word got around about him. Tossing the papers in a bum's flaming barrel he continued down the road. With a knife spinning easily in his hand he whistled a fine tune, similar to the clear skies above. As he passed the tailor's shop he spotted Regina near teh window, and, had his eyes been damned? The little witch who had tried to deceive him was being measured in the back. Well he couldnt let this down at all, he pushed open the door, flashing a smile at Regina as he sat next to her, "Told you I'd be back"
"Gladly"Alex said with a smile, walking from the tailor, holding the door for Regina. As she passed he closed the door and continued to walk wiht her. He glanced at her from the corner of his eye, smiling. Alex turned and pulled her by the hand towards teh pub, "Well here we are, watch yourself lass.." he said, opening the door and stepping in.
Dami walked out when the tailor was through taking her measurements and saw Alex and Regina leaving the shop. Looking back at the tailor she said “I’ll be back to pick these up tomorrow morn’.” and walked out of the shop in time to see them slip into the pub. “So we meet again Mr. Bandit” she said walking up to Alex. She smiled, raising her eyebrows. “I must thank you for brightening up what could have been a dull day.” Then, eyeing her silk purse she said “I also must warn you,” she leaned closer in towards Alex and whispered sweetly “If you try and steal from me again I’ll cut your balls off for earrings” and smiled and went to sit down at a table.