█ ━ ;☾⋮ Taverns are all relatively similar in their bare-bones nature. Creaky ceilings, rickety chairs, lopsided tables, and less than savory patrons suited the scantily clad woman just fine for she too, is armed to the teeth beneath sparse clothing and a bright grin to slither along a sunkissed visage. Yet between the slurps of grog and slaps of idle hands, the pirate finds herself bored per the usual with the typical slurring suitor, only to lay amber glinting irises upon one so stout. A dwarf? A surfacer by the looks of him but hardly a lacking dirt rat mingling about humans.
Beneath the grimace, that she can only imagine he carries constantly, must lay an experience of a thousand ages all muddled through traumatic experience. And Isabela holds no quarrel flouncing her curiosity at the only person in the establishment that has yet to lay his eyes upon her. Perhaps a challenge, certainly so but the pirate queen needs a touch of entertainment lest her night be dull and without bite just like her beverage.
The slow sway of hips give a wide berth to push through crowds, making an obvious presence known in a slightly less than bold approach. Locked on a prize, she is, whether it turns to be her folly later in the night makes no matter now between the humming noise purring the back of her hoarse vocal chords or the sneer she just knows is coming. They all play hard to get but that's half the fun -- right?
He painted lips purse when she rounds at his table, head quirking to the side to spill raven tresses about a tanned shoulder, catching small strands in the strands of medallion gold pooled at bust and collarbone. To tread somewhat carefully would be a shame... Only fools rush in, after all and she proudly plays the part.
"My, my... Now, who are you? Never seen you before and I know I'd remember someone so handsome. I'm Isabela, Captain Isabela." She waits for no permission to sit at his table, slipping against a stool with liquid grace befitting a sailor, an easy motion for a girl so used to skirting about horrors. The callused paw of her palm moves to rest against her own sturdy chin and teeth bare wide in a smile and lithe digits attached to a free hand point lazily from the table, "-- And is that beard of yours real?