"You've made sure the coast is clear?" the taller pirate enquired of the helpless clank. "All the staff is on the main floor performing tasks I have set for them," replied Mrs. Butler. "The clank seed you have poisoned me with made sure I would do that as certain as it made me shine the beacon directing you to a safe place to enter the building." It paused and quietly opened a door at the end of the balcony and shined the bullseye lantern within. "My lady is slumbering as to be expected. The Maid Servo Clanks persuaded her to take a sleeping draught." "Good, good! Apple of my eye, be very silent and stealthy like. Apple of my eye, Enter the room and illuminate the heir!" The Head Maid servo clank helplessly followed the directions given with the command phrase "Apple of my eye". The tall pirate began to fish out something secreted in her left jacket sleeve. The first pirate watched. "So we have the Darkstar heir dead to rights, Kimiko. How do you propose to persuade her to come along with us and not alert the house staff and more to the point, that bloody guardian just beyond yon front entrance door?" The taller pirate withdrew the object of her fishing. "I intend to strike a bargain she'll not have the head to refuse!" The object was a leather-covered billy club weighted with a lead shot filling. "She'll just sleep peacefully through the whole event if my little persuader works so well as it usually does!" Molly's art notes: Set up and rendered in Poser 12.0.500 with the Superfly Cycles 2 rendering engine. Probably too dark; I have a terrible time rendering scenes that are supposed to be taking place at night. 😫The location is the servant quarters of Blue Tree Studio's modular mansion. The Skydome and manor grounds are by Flink. The taller air pirate is based on the Dawn mesh with shape and texture by Tempesta3d. The shorter air pirate is based on good ol' V4 also with shape and texture by Tempesta3d. Their gear is from DAZ. The head maid is based on Cybertenko's CSI mannequin with an outfit by Maya Studios repurposed. The Ball Joint Doll is from Maya Studios is also visible as one of the humanoid clank maid servants in the ground floor in this picture. Although the whole series is posted here, if you want to follow it more easily check my Deviant Art site. The series begins at: https://www.deviantart.com/mollyfootman/art/Lilja-Darkstar-ponders-875997592