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The Saint Marie was about as effective in the ocean as a bird. It scrambled uselessly against the waves, smacking against them instead of gliding through them. The damaged mast had slowed her to a crawl and the much more agile converted Corvette, bearing the name Wicked Witch quickly overtook...

“I've said it before and I'll say it again,” he explained in a straight-forward voice, “I don't need you to show or share with me anything. But you've already showed me so much. Maybe this isn't what you have, but you showed me New York, and that was amazing. That is amazing,” he clarified. He...

“Yes, it is going to get us where ever we are going after Seville, hopefully anyways,” he said, sitting back on one hand and using the other to take a few more bites from his apple slices. He was quite remarkably hungry, moreso than he ever had been before, but he supposed that was probably a...

Amadeus' dreams were the same as they usually were. He was back home always, in the familiar four walls of the cabin he had grown up in. It was different than it was now, resembling his childhood home. He'd end up looking down and seeing his hands-- soft and small, like those of a boy's. When...

Cyrus had been doing remarkable. At least as remarkable as a man who had been early run through with a piece of old wooden mast could, really. He was working again, actually pulling together information for his newest map and walking around on his own. Not just walking but getting up, sitting...

Thalion could practically taste her exhaustion on the air and when she wrapped her arms around herself, he knew it was time for her to sleep. She needed it, desperately, and if she couldn't think about their journey, Thalion would think about it for them both. "Come on," he said, his tone...

[/heightrestrict] “It wasn’t really courage,” he mentioned off-handedly, “Just survival instinct.” He knew he had to survive so Minette could survive because while he did truly believe that she could survive Evernight on her own, she was weak and wounded, she didn’t know the terrain, and...

[/heightrestrict] He undulated in the water lazily, just floating there and closing his eyes and letting all the heat seep from his bone marrows. Even though he knew he was cold, he couldn’t feel it. He couldn’t feel anything except for the rising and falling of his lungs as he breathed. He...

[/heightrestrict] Two days. Two long, painful days that Thalion barely managed to scrape through. The ache in his bones was painfully obvious and the limp in his step had gotten worse. He barely talked during the last day to the Falls, mostly because he didn’t have the air in his lungs left...

"I'm just kidding," he said with the first genuine smile all day. "You would survive just fine, but I'm not going to leave you." She could probably figure it out in time, but if he could make it easier for her, he would. Even if he didn't have much fight left in him, he knew the land... He knew...

[/heightrestrict] His fingers uncurled and relaxed at the warmth of her hands covering his. He turned his eyes to meet hers, offering a smile that was entirely insincere. He had no reason to smile and only felt compelled to do so because it seemed like she needed that response from him...

[/heightrestrict] “Stop being stupid, we don’t have time for it.” Thalion was on his feet, but it was painfully obvious he was hurting. It was all across his face and he had to lock his knees to keep his balance because every quiver in his muscles threatened to topple him straight back to...

Cyrus had closed his eyes and his expression grew tired as he thought on Jack. It worried him in a way he had never been worried before. Something about Alice had stirred a great deal of concern deep within him in a way he hadn't felt in a long time. He supposed it was because he felt, at least...

“I quite like them as well,” he answered when she commented on their conversations, and he meant it. After all, it hadn’t taken her long to crack through his front of solitude and silence. All he had ever really needed was someone worthwhile to speak to. Not to imply that everyone on this ship...

Stretching out his spine, trying to get some stretch and elasticity back into his tired and aching muscles, Cyrus continued to shift around periodically on the bed because his discomfort was only growing… spreading out through his veins bit by bit until his entire body was just pulsing...

“Well, wonderful. I feel like I should pass something on in this world, so why not wood carving?” he ended up chuckling gently, though the laughter was captured in his throat when searing pain ripped through his abdomen, causing sweat to jewel at the back of his neck and his hair to stick to the...

The change of conversation was probably a bit jarring but Cyrus only had so big of a capacity to discuss where he had come from. She was easy to trust and it wasn’t a matter of wondering whether or not she’d regard what he told her, but he was still a secretive man, even to friends, and there...

Thalion smiled. It was a sweet, small thing as he reached for his shirt and slipped it back over his head, letting it hide away ever evil he had ever faced until he looked perfectly normal once more. All the scars vanished and, with them, the past they represented. "You're important," he...

Lacing his fingers across his middle and sitting back relaxedly, Cyrus crossed his legs at the ankle and did his best to just breathe evenly and consistently, which was proving harder than it should have been. “That’s quite the story,” he concluded when she had finished, just storing the little...

[/heightrestrict] Her eyes felt foreign on him. Not that he was particularly shy or embarrassed about the marks littering his skin, but because he expected her to react negatively to them. To him, they were just marks… he took them at face value for what they were: signs of struggles against...