Deri nodded and sat in the chair again as Toru left. Her eyes scanned the ship, looking for anything to do. She leaned back crossing her legs and lacing her fingers. Mihara's cold voice crept back into her mind, 'You are more Fire Nation than you know.' Deri bit her bottom lip and sat up straight, trying to shake the voice away. She didn't want to get angry now of all times. Her hands rubbed the back of her neck calming her down a little. 'I am not letting her ruin another day of mt life!' Her thoughts vowed.

Shao and his men had stripped themselves of their fire nation clothes while they were here and disguised the ship as one large merchant ship. Shao saw Di-Jei leaving the ship and ran up to him with and ostrich-horse. "Hey Di-Jei. Here have this. This is for sailing with us and helping out. Catch you around." Shao handed Di-Jei the reines for the ostrich horse.

Toru bended some of the water from the sea to this large bowl. He put it in his arms and carried it to his room. The bowl was about as big as a good sized boulder so it was pretty hard to carry. Toru laid it on the floor and started bending the water in it. First making tiny little ripples and then into a very small whirlpool. He got up and froze the water to ice. He walked to the back of the boat and watched the waves that the ship created.

Deri stood up from the comfortable chair and paced herself to the meeting room with two stories. She pranced up the steps and leaned over a metal bar that showed all the room. Deri smirked and climbed onto the bar and sat down. She was off balance and had a feeling she was going to fall and held the bar tighter until her knuckles and fingers were white. Deri started to hum a random tune.

Toru turned around after he heard footsteps. Better check if Ren's awake He walked down the stairs and saw Ren in the kitchen. Slowly he began walking toward Ren.

Deri looked down and smiled softly. As quietly as she could, she slipped off the bar landing soundlessly onto the metal floor. Deri spun on her heel and looked at a door behind her. She wasted no time running through it and stepping out into the bright sun. The girl was on another ledge looking down at the front of the ship. Deri sighed and leaned against the metal wall and looked out at sea.

Toru stopped mid step and looked back. I feel this trip's going to be very silent, I want to talk to Deri. He walked back up the stairs and saw Deri looking out to sea. He crept up to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

A deep inhale and exhale escaped the young waterbender’s mouth as he stared off into the horizon. It would take quite some time before they found the ship and it would probably take even longer to get near the ship without being spotted. Truly this was a test of everyone’s skill and they would have to be stealthy in order to get in.

The humid air billowed with strength into Shio’s eyes. After a few minutes of squinting the waterbender was able to see the effigy of what appeared to be a ship out in the distance.

Could that be them? Shio thought as he tried to concentrate on the site.

“Hey!” He shouted hoping to get some attention, “What about that?” he added as he pointed in the direction of the effigy of a ship.

Deri gasped and jumped at once. She spun around to see Toru. A reliefed sigh yelped, "You scared me!" Deri relaxed and said in a calmer more sarcastic tone, "Where did you come from? Out of the shadows, I assume?" She smiled and leaned against the bar again.

Joufuma looked up at the man as the scent of the other ship hit his nose. Aye, that's them. I smell the blood. Fresh too, but not postmortem. They've beaten the captain, but he's still alive. He conjured up a a mental image of all that had happened, then sent it to Keilani, asking out loud, Will you help?
She smiled a feral grin. She had been fooled, and she was about to let all her anger loose. Absolutely.

"Hah, I wish." Toru slung his arms over the rail next to Deri. "I hope im not annoying, its just that I have an odd feeling this trip is going to be awkward and silent." He looked across the water and sighed.

Deri shook her head and looked at the sun reflecting off the ocean and said, "You're not annoying. Far from it if you ask me. And if you don't want it to be awkward and silent. Just talk to someone." She tucked her hair behind her ears and smiled at Toru then asked,"Why do you think it would be awkward?"

"Just a feeling I guess, I'm still working up the courage to go talk to Ren." Toru looked down and realized his mistake. "Not that he's hard to talk to. It's just easier to talk to you." Toru played with the water that they left behind.

Deri giggled and said uncertain, "Thanks. And I get what you mean, I think. Talking to someone you've never actually met before." She looked at him waterbending with great intrest. "That's cool." Deri said looking at the water. She looked back up at Toru and then at the ocean again twisting her hair around her finger.

Toru felt embarrased. What am I doing?. He stopped talking and concentrated more on bending. "Its too bad that you can't bend here. I hate how waterbending needs to be near water and I bet you hate how you have to have a source too. Air and fire seem so... easy." Toru turned around.

Deri nodded and stopped twirling her hair, she looked back over at Toru smiling. "Yeah, I do. But luckily for you we are surrounded by water." She watched his bending trying to wonder if it would be possible to use any of those moves in earthbending. An idea sprung to her mind and she snapped. "If ice and sand can do each others moves, don't you think air and fire could also? Like an ice boulder, sand whip, fire scooter, airball?" Deri felt her cheeks get hot and she chuckled nervously, "Kinda weird for thinking that though..." Her voice trailed off and she ripped her gaze from the waterbending back to the sky.