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[disfavour]

[ This isn't going to be sweet but it will be short, courtesy of your resident Prince Not-So Charming. ]

There are now three flets, which pass as treehouses, in the gardens. These are homes and if anyone is seen nearing them to gain access, they will be shot on sight. I assure you, an arrow is far more difficult to extract than a bullet. [ #EXPERIENCE, urgh. ] Additionally, you will find the Elven quotient aboard the ship is now officially in charge of garden-based security.

That means we need not apologise if your actions force us to maim you.

[ Can you hear someone sharpening a knife? Humming? Sounds a lot like Legolas in the background, right? Someone pissed off the Space Elves. ]

Thranduil is indisposed and has appointed myself in his stead. If you have any concerns which fail to be entirely moronic in nature, you may bring them to me.

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voice; private

[disfavour]

His insolence did him no favours. [ The heat rises a notch in his tone, only for a handful of seconds. ] I am not a dog to be barked at and called to heel as if my convenience is anyone else's to presume upon.

There are those who have shown courtesy and received it in kind. He did not.

[ Everything's just a bit arcane up in here. ]

voice; private

[cargojet]

The gardens are his domain. If he decided that nobody could be allowed to live there, to forage, or even to enter, then that would be a rule that security could carry out with impunity. Whether you care for him or not, the power is his, and calling you to heel as you put it, is in the scope of his boundaries.

That said, I think you've misjudged him. Ned is defensive of the gardens only because he cares for their security as much as you do, and he's the most easy going, generous person I've ever met. If you did defer to him, you would be stronger for it.

voice; private

[disfavour]

What gives him the genuine right to claim them so? He is a passenger like any of us.

voice; private

[cargojet]

He was a passenger until he took responsibility and committed to becoming crew. Seniority is what makes him the head of his department, as I am mine, and Ned has been on board almost since this voyage began; this will be his twenty-ninth jump.

Since then, Ned has prevented the gardens from being burned down, gathered people to tend the plants and deliver produce, to build and maintain the infrastructure needed to keep the animals from trampling through the forest, even tended crops that others might have considered superfluous, but which I know for a fact have been responsible for the well-being of other passengers.

What I'm saying is that if this is a ship in the strictest sense, then Ned has never been a passenger content to sit in his cabin and wait for it to make port. He signed up for the crew, as anyone can, as you might, and he's stuck it out for two and a half years.

If you want more than that, then let's say that the Captain, when he was still around, was satisfied with the posting. Frankly I think character counts for a lot more than that, but it depends what your requirements are for respectability.

voice; private

[disfavour]

Necessary deeds, certainly, yet I'll not pretend he didn't offend me. His manner was crude and I far from appreciated it, glorified caretaker or not.

May I be honest with you?

voice; private

[cargojet]

I don't see any reason to stop now.

[ He doesn't need to say any more than that, Nuada asked a question, he gave the necessary prompt to continue. ]