The King of Clouds

Jason blinked at a pile of coal he reached in and pulled out a diamond that had gotten mixed in with the coal. "now this i like" he said smirking as he put it in his pocket.

Anne chuckled, "You put my test in with the coal, I presume?"

Jericho smirked. "Of course."

Anne smiled, "I love screwing people over, but when he comes up, we'll know weather he passed or not. If not, he better hope he can fly."

Jericho smiled. "Yeah. You should have told me to put some sirt of explosive in it...."

"I was thinking about it." Anne smiled, "But I know you have a hard time keeping things to yourself, so I took the liberty of playing around with it a little." She giggled, "I have the button in my pocket."

Jericho smirked a little bit. "May I have the honor?"

Anne smiled, "When I decide to let someone push it, then yes."

Jericho smirked. "Thanks." He mused, imagining the outcome.

Anne touched the end of her nose with a smirk, a gesture that she made when she wanted something to be kept a secret.

Jericho nodded and smirked, agreeing.

Jason sighed a bit, examing the diamond. "of course the captain will want to take this from me... then again.... what are the odds she didn't know something like this was here?" he mused to himself. he shook his head. "it's not worth the drama right now. she already knows i'm a theif and I don't need any more c***" he said reluctantly dropkicking the diamond far into the coal mounds. he sighed and began shoveling more coal, keeping the location of the diamond in memory just in case.

Anne chuckled, "Why don't you go down and check on him? I have a hold on things up here."

Jason sighed and kept shoveling coal, as boring as it wa he didn't want to get in more trouble

Jericho shrugged a little and started for the stairs leading down below deck. "Aye aye, Captain." He said, going below deck. "Deckhand? Where'd you get off to?"

"right where you left me" jason called from where he was shoveling coal. "am i being relieved finally?" he asked.

"No. Just being checked on." He called back.

"what a i being checked on for? are you hiding something in heree?" he asked curiously.

"To make sure you're not slacking. What would we hide in the boileer room?"

"well how should i know? i'm not the career pirate here" hesaid shoveling more coal.

Jericho shrugged. "Whatever."

Jason roed his eyes. so how much longer must i be at this" he asked.

"Dunno. I'll go ask." Jericho said, returning to the deck.

"Until I'm convinced he's not a thief." Anne said with a smirk.

"And what should I tell him?"