eighttaels: (cinnamon-free)
scales even ([personal profile] eighttaels) wrote in [community profile] westwhere 2022-06-05 09:04 pm (UTC)

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( And 'lo, bundled and quivering beneath spare blankets, soft-skinned and pale and utterly bereft, can it be, can it be so? A most handsome and familiar face, peeking between layers of damp wood and splinters thick, blinking away squinted stupefaction in utter dark.

Heavens did not prepare him for a life at sea. A brother committed to water did not prepare him for life at sea. Heaving and hauling himself to trot busily after the nearest shipmate, only to get swatted off like a shivered flea, did not prepare him for life at sea.

It seems to him, three hours into imprisonment, now sharing the luxuries of his accommodations (two blankets, a dog's bowl of fresh water), that maritime existence is a tenuous prospect, an unfair and unjust calamity that will surely elevate him to greater and utter godhood.

...thank everything for His Highneeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss, here to behold Shi Qingxuan's misery, where he curls up in his corner of the brig, holding up a mutinous thumb for either kissing, or the removal of its splinter: )


They said, um, BEING TOO LOUD and WAKING EVERYONE UP, can you BELIEVE it, can ANYONE think of a GREATER LIE????

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