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Laslo slowly chewed his food, watching his crew's antics with mirth. He nodded with agreement at the compliments to Phoenix's cooking, catching Loui's wink with a laugh.
"What can I say, we both clearly have good taste."
He bit back a gleeful smile at the mention of the cake, shooting a quick glance to Felix to make sure that the quartermaster hadn't caught his flickering expression. Lord knows what the man would try to get away with if he realised that bribing with chocolate was very much a viable option with the captain.
Pushing his plates away, Laslo sighed contentedly, signifying that even though he'd only eaten half of his plates, he was done with the main course. He'd never been a big eater.
He eye'd Felix's immaculately cleaned plates, "So it seems you're as methodical with your food as you are with your work." He stated, half-joking, half-impressed by the man's eating habits.
Minny smeared a finger over her plate, gathering up the last of the tasty broth on the end of her digit and suckling on it with relish.
She grinned as Phoenix ruffled her hair, perking up to attention and removing her finger with a light popping noise as the task of frosting was mentioned.
"You bet!"
She vaulted out of her seat, empty plates in hand, and bounded over to the kitchen where Phoenix was waiting. Her plates clattered loudly as she dumped them next to the sink, bright blue eyes zoning in on the cake immediately.
She happily gave the cook a quick hug,"Oh wow Pheeny! This looks so great! Are you sure you don't mind me frosting it?" She nibbled nervously on the corner of her lip, "I don't wanna mess it up."
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Up on deck, Barnes blew out a long plume of thick purple smoke into the night air. Despite his grumblings, he had followed Minny's advice and scrubbed his skin to a fresh pink using one of the barrels of recycled engine water. Not exactly the hot baths he had been used to back home, but it did the trick. His thoughts drifted to memories of a short plump woman scrubbing his back and joking around with him in a large tub, a dreamy smile spreading across his features as he puffed out another stream of vapor, watching it coil up to the stars.
Barne's gaze settled on the moon, it was full and quite dazzling, despite a smudge of black cloud obscuring part of its face.
It had been a full moon that night too.
Thoughts of warm hazel eyes and wandering hands were replaced by the memories of fire and pain. Grunting with distaste, Barnes shook his head and pulled his cap down, no longer wanting to look at the sky. He leaned heavily over the ship's balustrade and took a long drag of his cigarette, allowing the purple weed to turn the edges of his brain softer.
"I wonder if Laslo can be convinced to stay in port for more than a few days this time..." He wondered aloud, forcibly focusing his thoughts on more present matters. "It'd be good to give this old gal' a proper tune up." He patted the ship affectionately and gave his cig one last drag, scrunching his nose slightly as got the bitter taste of the butt coming through the usually smooth taste of hemtuft.
He blew the smoke out through his nose, in what would have been quite a dramatic display, had anyone been watching and contemplated whether to light up one more or to call it a night an head down for dinner. There were only a couple of crew members left finishing up jobs on deck, and he knew Phoenix started to get twitchy if she thought any crew member was even thinking of skipping their daily nutrients.
Making up his mind, Barnes flicked his spent cigarette over the side of the ship and pushed himself up off of the railing - a flurry of dark movement catching his eye as he did so. The short man squinted upwards.
What he had first thought to be a cloud covering the moon was now much bigger, much closer and very much un-cloud-like. The writhing black mass stank of malevolence and was approaching the ship fast - Barnes couldn't quite make out what kind of foul creature it was, but he didn't much care to as he caught the shrill sounds of pained screeching on the wind.
Stumbling backwards, Barnes let out an alarmed bark and bolted towards the alarm point built into the base of the ship's mast.
((The alarm will be sounded at the beginning of my next post, feel free to finish eating/ kitchen activities before reacting to it c: ))
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