For about a second she tries to hold in the laugh but it comes out as a snorting giggle. "Your sailors must've had more generous rum rations than ours, getting those mixed up." It leaves her with more questions but those aren't really the questions you ever actually ask people, you just ponder quietly. Maybe wake your girlfriend up with them at three in the morning because you've thought about it again.
"For us it's-- well we have duels. A lot of duels are for your honour, to settle something, for coin or goods but there are duels for show and it's about the performance, about the flair and how skillfully you can sell what you do," she explains with a wave of her hands and digs a coin from her pockets to spin it high, passing it between her hands. "It's to entertain. Some of them are making money especially if it's a card or a dice in cups trick but they might be with other performers and it's for fun. To make people gasp and enjoy themselves. Everyone can go. That's why I liked it; it wasn't just for the nobles or rich, anyone on the islands could go and watch."
Waver. Waver you're breaking her heart. What would she climb and where's the beauty, the drama? "The smoke goes up then, into the air...that still sounds-- It just sounds very dangerous to have more fire than you need on a ship out at sea. If something bad happened to those ships and then people had to cling-- the metal doesn't float same as wood. Or repairing it. Metal is expensive."
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"For us it's-- well we have duels. A lot of duels are for your honour, to settle something, for coin or goods but there are duels for show and it's about the performance, about the flair and how skillfully you can sell what you do," she explains with a wave of her hands and digs a coin from her pockets to spin it high, passing it between her hands. "It's to entertain. Some of them are making money especially if it's a card or a dice in cups trick but they might be with other performers and it's for fun. To make people gasp and enjoy themselves. Everyone can go. That's why I liked it; it wasn't just for the nobles or rich, anyone on the islands could go and watch."
Waver. Waver you're breaking her heart. What would she climb and where's the beauty, the drama? "The smoke goes up then, into the air...that still sounds-- It just sounds very dangerous to have more fire than you need on a ship out at sea. If something bad happened to those ships and then people had to cling-- the metal doesn't float same as wood. Or repairing it. Metal is expensive."