Captain Renee was staring up at the main mast. "Do I know this bird? Why is there a non-seagull on my ship?"
Titch was perriscoping, on her back feet, front paws tucked to her chest, as she looked way up. "That's Jo-Jo!"
"Right, so the bird has a name." Ren said, turning to look down at the cream-coloured bun, who had a soot coloured splotch on her nose.
"I wanted to show Jo-Jo a REAL crow's nest. She keeps trying to build things in trees with sticks." Titch made a scoffing nose. "As if you can see ANYTHING with all those branches in the way."
Jo-Jo cawed something that sounded mocking.
"You're very high up! Of course, your eggs would be protected!" Titch mentally yelled up.
"Not to mention Sage likes to sit up there, and not much would dare a Dutch Mafia Princess." The silver and white rabbit protected anything she considered helpless with pointed teeth. And she considered anything non-rabbit helpless. Some humans just happened to be beneath her notice and not worthy.
"YEAH! Sage's is the best egg-sitter on the seas!" Titch agreed.
"Well, maybe not literally sitting - " Ren didn't get to finish the thought, since Jo-Jo was letting up a ruckess at the notion of a RABBIT sitting on her eggs.
"We're not even sure she can have eggs." Titch said aside before going back to arguing with the crow.
"She's a corvid." Ren muttered as she headed below decks for breakfast. "Probably steal them if she had to."
She slid down the ladder like stairs. They were spotless and shined. All the better for not actually putting foot to wood.
"Get a rabbit, they said." Ren grumbled, heading into the galley, where Cindy was sitting and trying to convince her Aunty Rachel that rum in the morning was perfectly acceptable for a rabbit.
"They're quiet and won't get into trouble!" Rachel said, shooting the first mate a dark look.
"Hardly know she's there!" Ren continued. An oft said turn of phrases on the Rum Rabbit.
Cindy, Blanc de Hotot and piratical bunny extraordinaire, turned her butt to both of them. She looked over her shoulder and gave a very un-rabbitlike "thppppt" to them both.
