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[mygoodsir]

I admit the thought of a surprise makes me slightly nervous. I'd have no time to prepare.

[longitudinal]

Then at your own pace.

We have all the free time we could want here. Koby will attest that I spend most of my time at the lake or in my bed. Well, when not with him.

[mygoodsir]

The lake is quite lovely. I enjoy walking about it.

I spend most of my time reading, and now watching films. There are ever so many. They've found ways to capture even under the sea with cameras! Imagine! Music, too, is so readily available. I fear even with all of our free time I shall never have enough for it all.

[longitudinal]

Then it sounds like we should take a walk together sometime.

This place has far more than I had at home. I do not understand the movies but I like the stories they tell. I enjoy the books more.

We could walk the lake then see one of the movies you have enjoyed best so far.

[mygoodsir]

I should like that very much. Only I must apologise if I am slow; although I am much recovered, I am not yet at full strength after a rather lengthy ordeal prior to my arrival here.

The 'documentaries' are the sort I love best. They are all true stories, with real pictures. There is an entire series that shows every place on earth you can imagine! Mountains and glaciers and jungles and deserts. It is all so very beautiful.

[Tim showed him BBC's Planet Earth. He still hasn't gotten over it.]

[longitudinal]

The slower the better. Then we may both enjoy the view a little while longer.

[ the view being one another of course. ]

I don’t know if I have seen that one. I have seen plenty of movies about pirates, though. They have such a funny concept of how ships work.

[mygoodsir]

A most positive outlook, sir.

Do they? It must drive you absolutely mad.

[longitudinal]

Every ship is different, but the movies are entertaining. Koby likes them and we've watched many of them.

But I think if they ran the ships as they do in real life? They'd sink.

[mygoodsir]

The things one does for love, I suppose.

Have you ever lost a ship, sir?

[longitudinal]

Love does make us foolish in the best of ways.

[ but the second question? it takes a moment for him to respond. ]

Never sunk a ship, no, if that's what you mean by lost. Have you?

[mygoodsir]

It would seem so.

Not sunk. But Erebus and our sister ship were ice locked for two winters. We had to abandon them, I'm afraid.

[longitudinal]

Sorry to hear that.

It didn't get so cold for the seas to freeze where I'm from. The ship I was on was seized by the Empire not too long before I came here.

I don't know what's come of it, yet.

[mygoodsir]

Thank you.

Did your crew escape?

The not knowing is terrible.

[longitudinal]

I don’t know.

When the ship was seized, they came for me. I haven’t heard word about the ship.

I like to think they’re sailing the seas as usual.

[mygoodsir]

I am so terribly sorry.

If you wish to speak of your feelings on the matter, sometimes that helps.

[longitudinal]

That's kind of you.

I just don't want them to suffer because of me.

[mygoodsir]

I understand.

There is a particular responsibility one holds for his men. Even if there is nothing you can do to change the circumstances, you still wish to look after then as best you can.

[longitudinal]

They're my family. My father adopted me off the streets and I lived on that ship until I was taken.

They're good people. They deserve to live their lives as they see fit.


I miss the sea, sometimes. The lake helps but it doesn't compare.

[mygoodsir]

Then I hope fervently that they are doing exactly that.

As do I. Not as much as yourself, I am sure, but enough. It is very strange to be here - it is England, which I thought I'd never see again. And I am not unhappy. But still I yearn for other places.

[longitudinal]

England doesn't exist where I'm from, but it feels familiar.

Are you from England? Or somewhere else in this world?

Also, Koby did something for me once, out on the lake. Remind me one day and I'll do the same for you. It's as close as we'll get to the sea.

[mygoodsir]

Yes, I am. So the climate is very familiar to me.

Oh? Very intriguing. But I would like that.

[longitudinal]

It's miserably cold here in the winter. I am used to warmer weather.

Maybe when we take a walk, we stop at the lake together for a while.

[mygoodsir]

I might have agreed with you at one time!

I should like that very much.

[longitudinal]

Might have? Well, you'll have to teach me your ways.

Go - we'll take a walk together later. I think you've got some wooing to do, good man.

[ koby, of course. ]

[mygoodsir]

Yes, of course. I look forward to it.

Thank you.