[Ease off, Anduin. Before you seem too desperate for knowledge on the man.
Glancing up at the clouds himself, Anduin begins to follow the other man along the deck, unease brewing within him as he turns his attention once more to the situation before them.]
Please, Mr Briggs. In confidence, I must ask you one more thing...
[Anduin turns pale blue eyes upon his companion, looking at once very young, and wearier than any 19-year-old has any right to be.]
It is my understanding that Captain Vane's venture is under the commission of the Trading Company. When they found that he was after a specific item -- something which has been lost for a long time or perhaps only ever mentioned in myth -- the Company gifted him with this ship, this crew, a set of coordinates, and a fragment of the item that supposedly reacts to the whole.
It is very likely that the fragment in question was that tongue, Mr Briggs. Which is why I must ask you very plainly, is there anything you have heard of in your experience that might fit such a description as that, sir? Because whatever it is, I have a notion that we do not want either the Captain or the Company laying their hands on such an item...
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[Ease off, Anduin. Before you seem too desperate for knowledge on the man.
Glancing up at the clouds himself, Anduin begins to follow the other man along the deck, unease brewing within him as he turns his attention once more to the situation before them.]
Please, Mr Briggs. In confidence, I must ask you one more thing...
[Anduin turns pale blue eyes upon his companion, looking at once very young, and wearier than any 19-year-old has any right to be.]
It is my understanding that Captain Vane's venture is under the commission of the Trading Company. When they found that he was after a specific item -- something which has been lost for a long time or perhaps only ever mentioned in myth -- the Company gifted him with this ship, this crew, a set of coordinates, and a fragment of the item that supposedly reacts to the whole.
It is very likely that the fragment in question was that tongue, Mr Briggs. Which is why I must ask you very plainly, is there anything you have heard of in your experience that might fit such a description as that, sir? Because whatever it is, I have a notion that we do not want either the Captain or the Company laying their hands on such an item...