Once again Mary began to twist the glass in her hands, looking into it as she thought things over. It wasn't that she was trying to avoid her past but this part felt so far back now that it was like another lifetime.

"I've been posing as a man all my life. Different reasons. Mostly because money was involved in one way or another. I joined the Navy for a while, then met a man I loved and we tried to run an inn. After he passed I found the sea calling to me once more, but this time the ship was ransacked by pirates."

She chuckled and smirked at Yuffie, "Since they thought I was a man my choices were join them or die. Turns out I was rather good at it too."