( Absent, like summer breeze. Here, flickered then dispersed. Like an aftertaste crested against teeth unsharpened.
He smiles, and it curdles something in him. )
This captain has never lost his sail, his direction, or his ship.
( Fine feats for a pirate, but then, no man worth his salt would presume to weaponise such unfortunate vocabulary in the presence of... maritime benefactors. )
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( Absent, like summer breeze. Here, flickered then dispersed. Like an aftertaste crested against teeth unsharpened.
He smiles, and it curdles something in him. )
This captain has never lost his sail, his direction, or his ship.
( Fine feats for a pirate, but then, no man worth his salt would presume to weaponise such unfortunate vocabulary in the presence of... maritime benefactors. )