Topic: Panabul Salvage-Arcasa's Beginning

Rico Tharadon

Date: 2010-06-13 01:06 EST
Rico tossed his sweat soaked shirt onto the work bench and leaned against the truck as he admired the newly finished structure.

This was to be a shop of some kind. Aja had never said what, but he figured it was because she didn't yet know what it was. The crisp lines, large, homey windows, the red and white striped awning gave it a welcoming feel. He smiled thinking of it as an ice cream parlor to be. Little kids pressing their noses to the glass while they waited for their parents to catch up and get the tasty treats held inside.

He turned, leaning his arms on the edges of the bed of the truck, looking around the rest of the main drag. This whole strip, once finished was going to look gorgeous. Right now, it was littered with tools, lumber, stone and other materials, but soon, the wide stone street would lead to the resort and the comforts inside it.

He thought back to when they first arrived in Panabul. The place looked like a war had happened. The dirt streets were muddy, pot hole ridden. The business, homes and other buildings were shabby, run down and looked dismal.

The only semi nice house in town, belonged to the man that ran the ship yard. The ship yard, was a dangerous, disorganized place that Rico couldn't believe kept anyone in business. The storm that hit the rest of RhyDin, did a number on this port. Making it worse than it already had been.

If Rico was annoyed at the man's lack of care for his crew at the yards, Aja was absolutely livid. When the man hemmed and hawed too long about how long it would take to get back up and running, she ran out of patience and bought him out.

At first, Rico had cringed thinking about the amount of work that would be needed to make it a decent ship yard again but then he heard her plans. A resort town. Strip out the ship yards and change the whole thing into something truly beautiful, restoring it to a glory that it surely had at one time.

There were times where Aja's ideas were a little left of center, like the time she built a house on a converted barge, but this one, just might take its place as one of the best she'd ever had.

When she announced that Antonio and her had partnered up, he was a little surprised. It wasn't like her to do business like that. But she had been making strides at becoming part of something bigger than herself. Including family into her world and work.

Rico stretched and grabbed the shirt, tossing it into the bed of the pick-up before getting a fresh shirt out of the cab of the truck. He made his way down the street, making notes on his clip board at the progress of each store front and the estimated date of it's completion. It wouldn't be too much longer till they started on the resort. Once that was finished, he imagined that this town would be breath-taking and exactly what Antonio and Aja had imagined it could be.

It was nice to be a part of that.