Alannah was beginning to lose hope, there was no ship was leaving port that day, nor any day that week. Frantic to get away, shee looked around and spotted the "Sailor's Moon" a bar near the docks where the crewmen of the berthed ships would come to drink and have their "fun" with the local ladies who wanted to earn some extra money. The bar was known for being the worst of the worst, yet Alannah knew she had to find passage out of Nuremberg. She walked into the bar, as as she did every head of every nasty looking sailor turned in her direction, after all she was not the typical sort to walk into this sort of place. She found a stool at the bar, closest to the door, ordered a water and buried her head in her hands.
"What's a pretty little thing like you doing in a place like this?" the bar keep asked as he handed her the water.
She looked up at him noticing the clock above the bar indicated the time was now almost two p.m. she had wasted almost two hours looking for passage. She gave the bar keep a halfcocked smile, "Thanks for the water," she said in a heavy Irish accent, "I'm looking for passage on a ship."
"Well where do you want to go?"
"Anywhere but here!"
"You can come up to my room, that would be anywhere but here." He said and busted out laughing.
"I'm not that kind of lady!" she hissed at him.
"Well then girlie you should have never walked into this bar."
Looking around her, the men were getting up and coming towards her, she knew that if she did not leave here soon, she was going to be in some serious trouble. With her fathers men scouring the pier looking for her, and now with these men wanting to take what wasn't theirs, she was terrified. Just then a younger man, maybe around her age walked into the bar and stood up for her, grabbed her arm and the two of them left. Before she could thank him for his help, he was gone.
She sat at a table just outside the bar, she had to think of a plan. She heard people in the bar talking and when she peered in she saw that they were passing around a black and white photo, panic struck. Alannah knew that it was only a matter of time that they would find her, she had to leave town and fast. "There has to be a ship leaving town, I have to get out of here." She had said to herself. Or at least she thought she was talking to herself, a moment later a rough looking man came up to her.