"Mother..?" A blink "Moher sorry I... I thought, except for the trip to Thyle, which you took a few weeks courses on, you hadn't sailed at all. Then to Thyle you did... and to me, it feel like I was learning since birth... then we came back, and.. you stopped. Out of duty and being busy. But how often do you take the Kesrel out? Let alone trry other ships? I've been sailing, rowing, and stowing away while you've been ruling, patroling the gground, riding stormwake..and going to boring meetings a the Count's. If it was otherwise, I didn't know. Perhaps it sounded like Arrogance, but I truly believed I had clocked more time on a ship, done more intense studying about them than you, annd... done more variety than you. I didn't contest you, the man asked who was captain, and we both spoke at the same time. You'r he one who said 'you didn' expect a rival'... that was never my intent I.." A breath "I am not the best at ANYTHING the lodge respects as Trollish... I had thought Ships were the one area I excelled by troll standards. I was so excited to step up, I didn' realize you saw me as stepping ON you. And.. I'm sorry. I never meant that. To me, you ..well nevermind. I was reading you wrong a first too it seems." All true