For the record, I wasn't thinking of a sailboat or a big ship or something like that. I was more or less describing a skiff. [ a soft laugh. ] But yeah, you're right. Wish that old hag had understood it from the beginning.
[ instead, the pequod had gone around and around in circles until its very demise thanks to its captain. ishmael was so close to ending up like her, only to be stopped just in time because of the very bonds she'd built on the bus. and it's something that she'll forever hold on to, like the ropes that had saved her life that day.
another bout of silence fills the air, which perplexes her somewhat. she's usually capable of speaking her mind, but elysium has an uncanny way of seeing right through her that she can't help but hold up her walls in self-defense anyway. regardless, she swallows her trepidation down and makes herself smile. after all, he seemed to like the gift she'd gotten him. ]
Anyway, you probably have other people to deliver gifts to, so I'm gonna leave you to it.
[ the door slides open behind her. ]
...I'll see you around?
[ yet that odd feeling of uncertainty remains. it's probably nothing. ]
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For the record, I wasn't thinking of a sailboat or a big ship or something like that. I was more or less describing a skiff. [ a soft laugh. ] But yeah, you're right. Wish that old hag had understood it from the beginning.
[ instead, the pequod had gone around and around in circles until its very demise thanks to its captain. ishmael was so close to ending up like her, only to be stopped just in time because of the very bonds she'd built on the bus. and it's something that she'll forever hold on to, like the ropes that had saved her life that day.
another bout of silence fills the air, which perplexes her somewhat. she's usually capable of speaking her mind, but elysium has an uncanny way of seeing right through her that she can't help but hold up her walls in self-defense anyway. regardless, she swallows her trepidation down and makes herself smile. after all, he seemed to like the gift she'd gotten him. ]
Anyway, you probably have other people to deliver gifts to, so I'm gonna leave you to it.
[ the door slides open behind her. ]
...I'll see you around?
[ yet that odd feeling of uncertainty remains. it's probably nothing. ]