"We stood in front of the stone cutter soon after. Jón did the negotiations himself, now that he knew what I wanted. The man's name we found was Kare...tje. He said, "You want a stone wheel?" Yes. I want a square hole in the middle and I do not want any cracks in the stone." Stone wheels are expensive, master." I will give you a half a silver penny, but it has to be done in two days." I had Jon search among his broken stone pieces until I felt the right sort of sedimentary rock. Holding it up, I. Eventually we had Shark cleaned up to the point where we could wash the decks off. After that we could strip the prisoners, bring them over to Shark where they could be watched, and go through the three captured ships.We didn’t bother cleaning the ships up, as they didn’t seem worth keeping. We had enough ships. None of the captured ships held anything of note, either, nothing of real value. They had all sorts of supplies, though, so we stripped them as completely as we could, from rigging and. It wasn’t hiding much, seeing as Misty wasn’t exactly a busty lady, but she had decent breasts. The she sat down and pulled off her shorts before turning around and crawling toward Ash and the opening to the sleeping bag. The memory of Misty crawling toward him in her underwear was seared into Ash’s memory forever. Misty slid into the bag next to him, touching quite a bit of skin as she did so. She smiled at him and snuggled up close. Ash put an arm around her, trying to make it seem somewhat. Moments later, Laura walked into the house and it was obvious she'd been crying as well. "Are you going to be alright", Jeff asked Laura, although he knew how stupid that question was right now.Laura sat down and sighed, looking at the floor. "I don't know", she admitted. "I was just so angry that they hid this from us. But, honestly, if they'd told us at the beginning, I would just have spent all this time being scared about what might happen." Jeff nodded, not wanting to interrupt her..