OOC: No problem. I laugh at your profile picture 
YAY RURIK!
If he looked a little miffed by her quick kiss, Alaine didn't notice. She was far too busy admiring the oddly-shaped and distorted reflection of her eye in one of the necklace's heavy jewels, and would deal with the cooties later. Gabe began to speak again, and she absently lifted her floppy ear in his direction, when THUMP! The little collie-girl jolted and nearly fell on her rear, emerald eyes wide as they looked for the source of the sound. She opened her maw to say something, but Gabe hissed a command at her, and instead the little girl let her mouth shut sharply. Pinpricks of fear began to claw up into her belly, cold and hard as ice.
Gabe began to creep forward, and she immediately had the urge to pull him back, hide behind his slightly-taller form. The fluffy little girl remained rooted to the spot, shivering as if it were freezing cold. Then, just as she feared, her leader's inquisitive face became a dead-pan of horror. Her owlish-wide eyes were rimmed with fear, their pupils shrunk down to tiny little dots of shadow. At the sound of her name, the girl seemed to snap back into reality, her floppy mocha ears swinging towards the 'yote boy. His words confirmed her living nightmare.
" Go where? We're trap-"
CRASH!
Her words cut off into a soundless whimper, followed by the gruff stream of pirate-language. Her legs froze underneath her, and even as Gabe scrambled to put his meager defense before her, Alaine was already wondering what the pirate's breath would stink like, how his hands might hurt her. The footsteps were growing, and her eyes suddenly filled with tears, the heavy treasure about her neck completely forgotten.
" G-g-gabe?"
Her musical voice was so soft, spoken straight into his ear, that nobody else would have heard as the planks beneath their paws rumbled with the approach of the pirate. She swallowed down the tears that threatened to choke her, and placed one paw against his shoulder almost bravely. Only a few more seconds before they were found.
" ... It was nice knowing you. You make a good leader."
Speak think walk!