Thread:Cyrania de Bergerac/@comment-24993958-20151126093701/@comment-24993958-20151127210210

Ok, so after bouncing ideas with Spirit trying to figure out how to keep your story as close to what you had as before without having to deal with multiple loose ends:

Basically have the pirates be running away from something they did and use Dolma’s home as a temporary hideout. They grab the kid with the lasso when he tries to run the first time, and explains to the two that as long as they don’t make a fuss and are hospitable, so are they. So they stick around till they think the coast is clear, joking at Dolma's expense and maybe even teach him some games and train him some basic fighting techniques to quelch their boredom. They leave when they think it’s safe while taking whatever valuables they can find in the house, leaving the kid bitter about pirates and her mother rather twitchy around strangers; end result he joins a hunter school in hopes of paying them back one day.