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probably grown up in the streets and was doing what he had learned was necessary to survive.  To the boy he wasn’t so much stealing as he was merely being an opportunist.  He looked at Ari and mouthed “what do we do?” from out of the lads line of sight.
    Ari gave an unobserved nod then cleared his throat. “Nuekirk have you ever had a job before?”
    “Yes sir since I can remember, mostly temporary jobs delivering equipment on the wharf or running messages, nothing more than seasonal or just enough to eat and sometimes get a cot.  With the war on a lot of ships are not sailing so I haven’t been able to get anything for the winter.”
    “It appears that we need a guard on this boat while we aren’t using it.  How good are you at keeping secrets?” Ari asked sternly.
    “Really, really good, Sir, I’ve been trusted with lots of secrets.”
    “Like what, Sonny,” piped in Shew.
    Nuekirk fidgeted a little.  “I promised I wouldn’t tell.  I promise that they were important though.”  The lad shifted his eyes back and forth smiling as if at a private joke or memory.
    “Heheh,” chuckled the old spy.  “I guess you can keep a secret.  But never tell anyone you know secrets especially if they are important ones.  The question now is how good you are at acting like you don’t know any secrets?” Shew said, his smile vanishing as he glared suspiciously at the teen.  If someone thinks you know secrets they just capture you and torture em out of you or worse feed you wrong information so that those that you do tell things to get bad information.”
    “Tell you what Nuekirk,” spoke Ari. “We will let you live on the ship but as a guard not as a stowaway. We will probably need you to run errands for us from time to time as well but you need to keep your mouth shut and even more importantly you need to appear to not know anything.  Do you think you can handle that?”
    The youth nodded his head vigorously. 
    “Good, I’m Ari; this is Roger, Shew and Shane.  You will get to know us more later, right now we are in the middle of something important. Shew take him below and teach him how to be a good guard and what we expect from our employees.  Keep him below until we are finished with what we are doing.”
    As Shew took Nuekirk below Ari shook his head, “Ok Roger back to work.”
    Shane went back on deck and lowered the towing unit into the water and pulled them out into the harbor away from traffic where they wouldn’t be interrupted.  He then went down to his cabin and quickly built the portal artifact that he had promised Ava. Then used his portal to open a small window above her desk and set it in the center with a small note reminding her to be careful.  As he left his cabin to go back up to the wheel house he walked in on an argument between Nuekirk and Shew.
    “What do you mean no one takes crown notes anymore?” yelled the old man.
    “Not since the war started.  No one trusts the Southern Kingdom or its currency, Sir,” cowered Nuekirk as if expecting to be hit for daring to contradict his seniors.
    “What are they accepting?” interrupted Shane.
    “Luion Gold, Silver, and copper, coin; the Bank of Lu Y Onton has notes of larger values but I’ve never had one and they say that if you get one you can always take it to the bank and the will exchange it for coin.”
    Shane Sighed, “wait here I’ll be right back.”  Shane went into his cabin and pulled out his notebook and looked up his glyphs that would transmute metal.  He then activated his instructor and began scanning glyphs for the different elements.  After a few moments he had an enchantment worked out which he quickly jotted down in his notebook.
    Shane walked back to the hall that was now empty but followed the sound of voices to the wheelhouse the conversation was still on the topic of finance but now with Ari and Roger in on the discussion.  “This means that I’m ruined,” Ari said while he scratched his