( He is stunned in place, watching the savagery of Quicksilver Sam's... unravelling with what can only be described as increasing, overwhelmed terror. A tongue, a human tongue. And then, the marks on that box, the Dawn's Reach Trade Company.
He knows he has lingered long behind the rest of the audience, startled out of his stupor by the boy who... oh. Oh, Mr. Briggs has seen this young man before. And he is asking...
A tongue, is all he can think of, a tongue, a tongue. )
I am... ( Breathless. Making haste to fish out his kerchief and pass it neatly over the cold sweat that lines his forehead. This does not bode well. Quicksilver is insane. ) Yes. Yes, I... among my many... duties and years of experience at sea. Yes.
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( He is stunned in place, watching the savagery of Quicksilver Sam's... unravelling with what can only be described as increasing, overwhelmed terror. A tongue, a human tongue. And then, the marks on that box, the Dawn's Reach Trade Company.
He knows he has lingered long behind the rest of the audience, startled out of his stupor by the boy who... oh. Oh, Mr. Briggs has seen this young man before. And he is asking...
A tongue, is all he can think of, a tongue, a tongue. )
I am... ( Breathless. Making haste to fish out his kerchief and pass it neatly over the cold sweat that lines his forehead. This does not bode well. Quicksilver is insane. ) Yes. Yes, I... among my many... duties and years of experience at sea. Yes.