"Oh yes," Elizabeth admitted. "She picks me up all the time - especially if I'm at all slow to to climb on her" It belatedly occurred to Elizabeth that she should probably include that as part of the show. It looked rather impressive and she was mostly used to it by now.
"He might have a routine you just need to get started," Elizabeth considered. "He might even just get going in front of a crowd." That was presumably what the horse was used to. "And you have one whole day to practice," she said wryly. She wondered just how many of the show folk were new and just what kind of show they'd end up putting on. She was fairly sure there would be some sort of no refunds policy in operation. If how they obtained the staff was any indication Carnival folks definitely followed the pirates code when it came to taking what they could and giving nothing back.
For a moment Elizabeth didn't parse the reference to baby birds in amongst the other things that piracy was apparently associated with, and then realised it must mean her. "More peg legs than parrots," she said. She'd only ever known Cotton with a parrot but sailors who lost a limb were common enough. "But probably overall more parrots than women," she admitted. "Though many women who go to sea disguise themselves as men so they'd only be remembered if discovered." Which obviously could go badly.
Clothing store work was not as interesting as Elizabeth might have hoped but something else Juliet said caught her interest. '1930's horse trainer' "Are you not from the 1930s then," she said. "When did you come from." Elizabeth couldn't help finding tales of the future - the actual future - nearly as fascinating as she'd once found pirates. "I'm from 1743," she added barely managing not to pull a face.
ooc: sorry this took so long - I was sure I'd tagged but it mustn't have posted and I just noticed!