8th Wave

[tentacruelest]

Th' next time this Barge feels like poking around in my head, I'll be keeping to my quarters. The lot of yeh - useless dregs not fit to scrub a floor. It's bad enough I'm locked in here with you, I don't need to call any of yeh friends.

[Private to Bush]

Was dealing with me yerself so difficult that you sought to work through less offensive channels, Captain?

[Private to Arthas]

A word, my king.

[Can you feel that heavy sarcasm, Arthas?]

Comments

Private

[tentacruelest]

Aye. His Majesty's navy was always the breeding ground for new tortures invented by bored men. I'm not at all surprised.

Re: Private

[shakenandlimp]

You being so innocent you don't know how a Captain can make a ship like hell.

What you are doing is tween-decks squabbling, Jones. Leave'm be, it don't much increase your dignity to spat like this. You are more like a couple of hands fighting over some bottle of stolen brandy than like Mistborn and Mistresses of Time and the devil of all sailors.

Private

[tentacruelest]

No. I know very well. Intimately well.


I never knew ye to be so concerned over my dignity.

All I ask is to serve out my eternal sentencing in relative peace. But they will never give it.

Re: Private

[shakenandlimp]

If you think I ain't telling them to drop it as well then you're wrong.

If you've got to fight, come with me in the CTS and turn pistols and cutlass against a few ghosts. Between the two of us we are almost assured a ship battle.

Private

[tentacruelest]

They are wardens. I am an inmate. The blame lies with me.

...Hmmph. I will admit, I'm...tempted.

Private

[shakenandlimp]

Blame's not in such short supply it can be shared.

You could count me a little in your debt. I am about pining for the smell of powder and the sound of shot.

Private

[tentacruelest]

You needn't claim false loyalty to me simply because some daft Admiral stuck us together, Bush.

As am I. There's nothing near to a fair fight when every bloody idiot's arrived hundreds of years after your time.

Private

[shakenandlimp]

If you say so. But I'd still like a sea battle.

The Marquis of Sade is all right for an old libertine but he has never seen a sailing vessel in his life, I think. He was infantry. The purest lubber. It ain't the same.

Private

[tentacruelest]

That I know. You and I are the only men on this barge who know what real sailing is.

Re: Private

[shakenandlimp]

You have got me maudlin as an officer's wife over it now. I'm going to the CTS-- if you decide you should join me I'll bring a few extra weapons for you to use inside.

Private

[tentacruelest]

Give me time to get up there. I'm not nearly as fast as yeh. Not on this ship.

Re: Private

[shakenandlimp]

I'll wait at the door to the upper decks; if I go alone it will probably give me a battery to storm again and to hell with storming batteries.

Private

[tentacruelest]

And it would not storm against me, you believe?

Re: Private

[shakenandlimp]

I hope you're too much of the sea for it to send you trudging up onto land after a shore battery.

Private

[tentacruelest]

Seeing as how I'm cursed not to step foot on land save once a decade, I can't see why it would.