((Really, you guys crack me up. :lol ))

Baneri thought for a few short seconds, when he was hit once more with an idea.

Quickly - or as quickly as his old bones would allow - he walked towards the dock and faced the cranking mechanism once more. He reached forward and hung the plastic rings on the hook, staring back down at the water. "Humph, we'll see who get's the last laugh now!"

He cranked on the machine once more and the hook, once more, lowered into the water. Almost immediately thereafter, yelps could be heard from below; "Good-bye, cruel world! It seems this fish has met its match once and for.... *glub, glub* *garble, garble* PHEW! How lucky was that? Good thing that swordfish came along when he did." The fish said, and after a long pause, he continued, "What did you think you were doin, creep? This place is too dangerous for the likes of this talkin' fish! I'm outta here!"

The hook was cranked back upwards, but was not alone in its ascent. Dangling below by a rope was a small box, about a foot square and a foot high. Baneri reached out and pulled the box onto the wooden boards of the dock. Taking Dion's plain sword, he pryed open the box. What he found was not what he expected. There was a rusted red lantern resting in the box, nothing more - nothing less.

"Great," he thought, "that was worthless, huh?"
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