A Bronze Mirage

This morning when we set sail, the Mercenary came to speak with me. The various events of the Mad Prince has gotten to her and she feels the need to protect her company, and she aims to leave the crew when we arrive in Franconia.
I can't say I blame her. The prince has attracted much trouble, and I can see that she puts her company first, but it is still saddening. She has, in contrast to Kazagal and Nakor, some kind of common sense, which has been direly needed.
 
With the Mercenary preparing to leave, she has started to entertain the idea of trying to help us get a contigent of hell-knights on the ship to replace her white sentinels. I must say I've become quite fond of the sentinels, they are decent sailors and good people. And to be frank, the hellknights failed to impress me and i am not so sure they will hold up in an eventual fight.
The Mercenary also took it upon herself to spar with the Inventor. The Inventor was swiftly knocked out, to no-ones surprise.
 
The morning after, the Mad Prince watched the sunrise while I handled the rudder, when the little man suddenly cried out about something in the water. Fully expecting to see some of his "tricks", I was instead met with something massive and bronze. Having the kraken fresh in mind I immediately called for Jokh. The Tortle arrived on deck, shortly announced it to be a dragon without being terribly bothered by it.
 
The gigantic bronze beast lifted out of the water and landed on deck, although a bit smaller. The now Dwarf-man had struck up a conversation with Nakor. The dragon seemed friendly, and the party had some cordial conversation. He wished to speak with the captain, and so he was invited to my cabin. Cayden Cailean be good, he was out to hunt pirates as well. I quickly grew to like this dragon.
Not enough with him being a literal dragon hunting pirates, this dragon was hunting The Pitched Wanker.
 
After promising him to co-operate on the mission for The Pitched Wanker, the dragon challenged the Inventor in a single duel, knocking him out without a problem and then blowing him off the ship.
After picking the beaten Goliath up from the water, the dragon bid us farewell and set out on his search for the ship. Wonderful. We have a dragon on our side, this might actually make up the detriment of having the Prince of madness and chaos onboard and the Mercenary leaving with her troops.
 
In the waning hours of the day, Me'iq spied land. We are soon arriving in the northern part of the trade district, I'm planning for us to immediately organize the transfer of the queen into safe hands and then relinquishing the cargo we've been transporting. Time to dig up some leads in this city, it does seem that my fate is still entwined with that of the Pitched Wanker.