Gasp! Is it True?!

It takes them a full week of travelling to reach the city where they are supposed to meet The Black Calypso. By this time both women are more than ready to be off the back of their horses and Draven is looking forward to the gentle swaying motion of the ship out on the sea water. Draven takes Rose to meet Maryann while they wait for the ship to come to port. It takes three days, and during that time Sarah tries to convince Rose to buy clothes that are appropriate for the more tropical climate of the sea. The shopping trip goes just as badly as the one Draven took with Rose, with very little purchased.
The Black Calypso comes in silently, two lone figures stand on the Captain’s deck overlooking the procedure as night falls. Three figures wait for the drawbridge to be lowered. Once it does, they board the ship quickly, their cloaks covering them from head to foot, whipping in the sea breeze. Just as silently as it docked, The Black Calypso left the harbor.
For the following six weeks both Sarah and Rose suffer from sea sickness, and while it was expected for Rose to have suffered from this phenomenon, Adnama and Violet worried over their sister suffering from sickness. Rose names her fairies based on their personality. The red fairy is named Rosalyn, and is forever nested in Rose’s hair, the violet fairy, is named VeVe, and his male body radiates a masculine presence that cannot be denied despite his coloring. The indigo fairy is named Ion and Rose soon finds herself recovering to the sea sickness quicker than Sarah does, whose sickness comes and goes over the course of three months.
While sitting in their cabin room, Rose hears Rosalyn and VeVe entering the room in a rush. She smiles softly, small plants growing from the planks of the cabin moving away from her bare feet so that she is forever touching only wood, not knowing what is going on around her while the other fairies lounge on flowers and nibble on vines.
“Mommy! Mommy! Guess what we found out!” Rosalyn’s voice, high and small comes as she barrels into her mother’s hair, gripping the strands tightly in her small hands.
Rose chuckles softly and reaches up to pat Rosalyn gently before detangling the young female fairy from her hair. Holding her in the palm of her hand she looks fondly at the small fairy. “What did you find out little one?”
Taking a deep breath Rosalyn prepares to launch into a long speech when VeVe interrupts her, “Sarah is visiting the healer on the ship and taking potions to help with her being sick!”
Rosalyn shoots VeVe an angry look as she then sits down on Rose’s palm while Rose corrects VeVe for interrupting Rosalyn. When Rose finishes her speech she looks towards Rosalyn and raises an eyebrow. “Is there anything else?”
Rosalyn watches VeVe intently while she then plaintively asks. “Why would the captain need special visits to the healer and potions if she is sick?”
Rose walks towards the bunk in the room and takes a seat, crossing her legs she tilts her head to the side and then smiles softly. “Well my dears, I think it’s because Sarah is going to have a little one soon and she needs to make sure she is healthy and the baby is healthy too.”
VeVe speaks up, “Draven doesn’t know what she is doing. Do you think we should tell him?”
Rose frowns thoughtfully before she shakes her head. “No. I think we should let Sarah tell him when she is ready for him to know.”
A knock at the door interrupts the trio conversing and raising to her feet Rose opens the door to Adnama and Violet. Frowning at the now familiar smell of the two women she leans against the door and raises an eyebrow. “Yes?”
Adnama steps forward and cocks her hip to the side, speaking plainly, “We need your aid at the Captain’s deck.”
“What about Sarah?”
The two women look at each other before clearing their throats awkwardly. Violet speaks next to Rose, “Sarah is sick, can barely make it out of her bed. This is too urgent a matter for us to settle between the two of us.”
“Actually Violet, we can’t come to an agreement and since Sarah says that Rose is the leader in her village so that is why we came to her door instead of insisting on Sarah coming to the deck and throwing up on everything.”
Rose sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. “And what is the issue that needs to be settled?”
Adnama stepped to the side of the door, motioning with her arm, “If you will follow us to the deck then we can better explain it where there are no listening ears.”
Rose sighs heavily before stepping out of her room, having already figured out that bare feet was better for walking on a ship than booted feet, and walks between the two women up to the deck. Once they reach the deck, the fairies that followed the women, with the exception of VeVe, cling to Rose’s hair in an effort to keep from being blown overboard. Adnama steps to the right of Rose, and Violet stands at Rose’s left while Adnama motions towards a map that is secured to a table in the center of the deck.
“Where we have to go we face two paths. One is safe, easy, but takes several months longer than the other path which is fraught with whirlpools and sirens. And that’s not even mentioning the Sea Hag we have to contend with at the end of the trip. I know you said you have a deadline before going back to the village, but I believe the best course for Sarah’s health will be to go the longer route and hopefully but the time she is over whatever disease she has picked up from the mainland will have worked itself out of her system.”
Rose lifted her eyebrow at the last comment before turning to Violet, who bit at her bottom lip nervously, “I think we should take the longer course so as to cause Sarah the least amount of discomfort as possible.”
Adnama spoke, “And I think we should take the shortest route regardless of the dangers. So as you can see, we have a dilemma. We need to plot the course the ship is going to take, but when there is not an agreement, majority vote rules the rest of the ship. It was something that Sarah set down from the very first moment we were together.”
Rose ran her tongue over her teeth thoughtfully before she shrugged. “Go the shorter route. We have a deadline to reach and it would be better to go ahead and get it over with than prolong and run the risk of running out of provisions.”
Both Adnama and Violet nodded thoughtfully as Rose walked away back to her cabin. Sitting down on the bed, she gathered her fairies and began telling them about how children were made in the human world. Unknowingly attracting the attention of a small fairy who sat alone, away from the others, her body as clear as crystal.