Ah. Perhaps a dance of her people. For fortune in battle, perhaps for bravery. It must be so, facing the dire straits of the deck beyond.
He has been bidden silence — a natural inclination, hereby obeyed as he shifts to advance before her, hand on the hilt of his sword, only fractionally drawn. Better to keep himself mobile and ready for the plunge, than to burden himself with a blade too swiftly shown.
He asks nothing, stepping ahead to survey the deck, feet nearly slipped where the wood of the boat has turned nearly soft, gelatinous. The wound of the deck deepens into a hole, and — )
...sirens below. ( Toothy, grinning, mad. He learned the word so long ago on this land, even now it sticks heady on the tongue. )
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Ah. Perhaps a dance of her people. For fortune in battle, perhaps for bravery. It must be so, facing the dire straits of the deck beyond.
He has been bidden silence — a natural inclination, hereby obeyed as he shifts to advance before her, hand on the hilt of his sword, only fractionally drawn. Better to keep himself mobile and ready for the plunge, than to burden himself with a blade too swiftly shown.
He asks nothing, stepping ahead to survey the deck, feet nearly slipped where the wood of the boat has turned nearly soft, gelatinous. The wound of the deck deepens into a hole, and — )
...sirens below. ( Toothy, grinning, mad. He learned the word so long ago on this land, even now it sticks heady on the tongue. )