"Nice to see you back."

Aphra's voice was cold as she spoke, standing behind Octane. Her eyes were narrowed at the cheetah, her tail wrapped neatly and tight around her paws. It wasn't hard to miss the cheetah bastard coming back home, unscathed. Of course she was angry and perhaps a bit jealous; Octane didn't have to deal with only being able to see out of one eye now. Not to mention he was just uninjured in general, whereas everyone else had suffering some sort of blow, if not outright dying.

"Where the hell were you?" Aphra tried to look Octane in the eyes now, baring her teeth. Why couldn't it have been her out there, safe and sound? Maybe then she wouldn't be half-blind now. "Abandoning your crewmates like that?" She was assuming he just up and left sometime before the shower, fleeing from The Typhoon - not realizing he had left quite a bit before. "You're a fucking coward, asshole. You shouldn't have come back."

Yeah, she was angry. Did she have a reason to be? Probably not, but she oddly enough didn't feel bad 'scolding' Octane; it made her anger seem to flow away. It felt nice. Maybe once she cooled down would she apologize for lashing out to the poor dude but right now, Aphra didn't care. She probably didn't have the right to yell at him in the first place, but she wasn't known for keeping her mouth shut.[glow=COLOR,1,400] ━ ✧*:･ﾟ[/glow]

perhaps it was luck hollow's creek had been saved from the cold lick of judgement from aphra when he had discovered the islands. though he had been physically affected from the shower by being thrown overboard a ship and almost drowning, his injuries had healed relatively quickly all considering. though he wasn't sure if he would have preferred the woman's verbal lashing or ahab quite literally hunting him for several days.

these pirates were rather ruthless, was all he had to know. though they did not think much differently in the end.

holly didn't know either of them, though. to him it looked like the situation could turn into a physical confrontation, so he merely lingered for presence rather than any verbal offering.

Visiting his lab partner? Seriously? Although that in of itself was innocent, especially since this lab partner - Caustic, judging by Michael's words - lived in Tanglewood (again, which Aphra deducted from Michael), the fact that Octane hadn't been where when it happened is what bothered Aphra. Or rather, him not coming and checking up on his own crewmates is what bothered her. Sure, traveling was a pain in the ass, but the fact it took him a couple of days to get here is what made Aphra irritated.

Octane spoke ask if Caustic had taken him to shelter when the tremors hit, which was all fine and dandy for them, but Aphra knew if it had been her personally, she would've wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. But then again, maybe there was shit that was going on that she didn't know about. Judging how drugged up Octane looked, however, Aphra wasn't willing to guess that everything went to shit in Tanglewood. "The tremors should've alerted you something was up." The oriental longhair hissed. "I'm sure Tanglewood said something about a meteor coming down." Obviously, she didn't have proof of that, and it was probably rude of her to assume, but she didn't care.

Aphra was vaguely aware of Hollows Creek at the scene, though she said nothing to him. He seemed to be observing the situation, which was fine; Aphra had Michael to back her up, it seemed. Plus, Hollows Creek hadn't been here when the meteor hit, if rumors were to be believed. Aphra huffed and rolled her eyes when Octane demanded that they put him to work - ha! If she had the authority to, she certainly would. "I don't have the authority to." Hell, wasn't Octane technically higher than her? "But if I had the option, I'd make you help clean up around this place." It was the least that could be done. Maybe ban you from the Tavern for a week. She added to herself silently; at least for her, that would be a worse punishment.
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