The winds howled among the black sea,  small fish swaw about as overhead the skin thundered with rain and grey clouds to cover the sun

The school of fish then suddenly scattered Like waves of they own as the dark metallic  hull of a merchant ship tore trough them, the ship stood taller than some of the waves  of the high tide that struck the sea it navigated in, the rest of the ship as metallic and dark as the hull, save for the wooden floor, which was filled with the noises  of constant thumping of heavy boots, the ocassional clearing of a throat then the meaty thump of some of the ship's cargo. Some of it apperently twitching still. Followed swiftly by  the rapid foosteeps of the smaller occupants of the ship

And finnaly the sights of the people, if some of them could be called that. Mostly wearing large grey raincoats that gave most of them a large shadown over they features, the ocassional thunder light fearing for what it might see under them, a tired human face?, the dark and dry mocking caricature of  one?, the thunderlight still  mockinly dared to shine its loud light upon Them


There it shined a light on a white mask, dark paint around the only feature other than the large bleached   bone-white horns of the head that wore it: two gabing holes into what someone might call  a black void

-GO!- said  the  seemingly young yet strained feminine voice -we need to Pack the wet supplies quick! We are almost reaching  the town!-  she banged her butcher knife, a particurlarly large one with  a few rust marks on the tip of it against the metal railing to make the helpers  hurry up  -uhhhhghh- she muttered to herlself, calming herlself down as she remembered that the dark ship was almost halfway trough
Reaching the town that they were delivering in

Amelie weide really  needed to chop something or she would really explode in a mess of nerves

She started taking deep breaths

-chill amelie...- she said to herlself as she massaged her temples and adjusted her butcher's mask, she wished she Could have custumized it a bit more before sailing once again, but alas that time Should wait as amelie stepped into one of the ship's compartments, a metallic square box that was almost tumour like amongside the other structures in the middle of the ship, 'growing' out of the other side of the container's  deck rusty walls

She kept walking and walking, her soft footsteeps drawing attention to the others in the bunk beds, but most quicly looked away or watched in more secret as amelie gave them a death glare, then she saw amongside the end of the hall, leading to the other side of the ship guarded by a beggining to rust white metallic door and a being

This being was human, he had a almost pinkish skin, with hair all over in the legs, but with two defining characteristics

One : more noticibly around the legs and arms was  what seemed like red bulging rashes, alongside wounds of someone who had been scratching on a rash for too long, with the crusty blood red scarring to prove it

Two: the arms and legs in question were noticibly stretched as if someone had taken  a doll, burned his limbs just enough so that the plastic would be a lot more softy and bend and stretched it Until it gave signs of rupturing, then added a few steroids in the mix

That was the result of being a warden jay  skell endured
-hey jay!- said emilie with a
Open mouth  hidden by her mouthless mask

-hi emilie- said jay promply tired as he scratched his  rough jaw -how is the cargo going?-

-well..- emilie scratched her long hair -its going Well but fucking helpers are slow but i THINK that it all be in place for when we get to town-

-good- said jay firmily, ellie had noticed he had not blinked up Until now -we need to earn more custumers, regulars are enough but we need more to expand- explained jay firmly

-very well- ellie stopped as she said -may i pass?-

-why?-

-i need to see how the wet section of the supplies is going-

- very well- he said as he took his mutated, bulky body out of the way as he grumbled something about 'those darn bones' which ellie was pretty much unable to hear much more as she stepped out into the other side of the ship

The rain was starting to clear as the cold of the rain persisted, covering most of all surfaces with a reflective and cold look as Amelie runned one of her hands trough the metallic wall, feeling each and every drop of cold rainwater as she felt shivers down her  spine as she tried to adjust her coat for the cold

she looked around, seeing the helpers standing near some of the wet supplies: the stuff that most of the clients wanted for a good feast or more,  she caught glimpses underneath the fabric and ropes holding the supplies down in  the spot of tentacles, what she was almost sure was a gigantic  skinless crab, the   'rest' of millie's animal batch, a bunch of piss-yellow jars holding   various liquids extracted from the excess batch and more which emilie ignored as she passed her hands around her coat, feeling  the slippery, slick and rainwater wet surface as to distract herlself from the cold when she realized the sun was beggining to shine

The sun was barely a shadown over the clouds, but it certainly dinished  the cold a little, the cheerful sound of seagulls  filled amelie's ears, they Were there

 The Town  of Rostfle rose out of the sea in magnificent glory as the smoke of working machinery and chimneys dissapeared into the skies, some staff on deck Alongside amelie got into the railings as the dark ship's Horn blasted into full on volume as to alert people of its coming, amelie could already see some of the people in the docks already rushing to put the ship in place, while some of the  were already moving the stocks for moving and trading for rostfle's Market


First came the waves the dark ship made, splattering all unlucky people who had not walked out of the nearby rusty docks with a wave of cold seawater

The people in the dockings and helpers started collaborating in setting the ramp for all the necesary supplies and workers to drop off, they would be busy taking the oppurtunity to do maintainance on the ship, with rust from saltwater already beggining to form on parts of  the railing

Amelie simply sat on a old chair watching it all, doing the simple act of cleaning her  knife off

She did not realize how quicly the ramp was set up before hearing a sudden old rough voice

"GET HERE NOW" the voice was clearly very impatient, amelie quicly runned down the ramp and into the docks,.there she saw the source of the voice

A frail old man, by the looks of his stitched up clothing he was a Fisher, and also the  fingers that were tall as a stick, cracking with every move or touch

Amelie was relieved to meet one of the clients

"Well now.. you are the butcher right?" The old man cocked his head to the side

"Amelie weige, butcher of the dark ship sir"

"My name is  michael..now I suppose lady.." his neck cracked as he said his words "I suppose you have-"

"Yes the fleshling is here" out of her left pocket she took it, a mass of pulsating flesh, with bone and teeth sticking and groaning  in all it's mutated glory
The old man quicly took it, giving a small tied up sack of coins to amelie in Exchange, his crocked fingers cracking alongside the fleshling's groans, adding another sound to the syphony of bones and flesh

"Thank you" his fingers twitched


"No problem" amelie said, already running to get in the pace  of the helpers, who were being guarded by jay and another escort

This escort walked alongside the supplies on the way to the Market  as she   clicked her saw like mouth absideminded alongside pocking her two hairballs in her hair, a way to cointain her long hair

She was no taller than jay's ankles or amelie's chest but she compensated that with her right arm, if it could   be called that was red and sticky, somewhat like caramel melted by the sun to the sidewalk, progresivelly getting wider and wider Until its red body ended in a  round  drooling maw of syringe like teeth, ready to suck up on Anything its owned allowed

Kisei ichi had a bit of a guard 'dog' to say the  least

"hey" said kisei to amelie, looking at her with her wide red eyes

"Hi"

"So amelie right? You know why we need you"

"I suppose it is to cut up any excess or any portions to clients-"
"Yeahyeah" interrupted kisei "but also it's because we need you to make a good impression, the clients got to see the person behind all that cutting you know?" She said as she looked  attentively at the supplies