I grab holda somethin soft--or softish, it's a bit scratchy iffn I'm honest--and yank it out from the cupboards.
Gotcha, ya damned bastard! I say an hold up the extra blankets I hid down in the mess hall fer jus such an occasion. "Blankets" bein…
I'm on my hands an knees in one a the cupboards of the mess hall. I'm movin jagged utensils an dented cans an jars of pickled ... actually, ya don't wanna know--along with other foodstuffs tryin to find the linens we had back here.
Snargs might …
I soak up Cap's words for maybe longer than I shoulda. But when Snargs gets that look in her eye, I run back to the Engine Room. If the starboard vents stayed open we'd get a bit more speed--specially with all that steam reroutin I done up still i…
Shut up, Cap.
I’m standin in the doorway of the gob-pit. I can hear the heart a what goes on in here echoin down to the engine room an I came over cause I couldn’t believe any of what I was hearin. I heard the last of what the Cap said wit my ear…
I'm still tryin to wrap my noggin around this whole "voidblood" business so that blast of unfriendliness comin from some loudspeaker scares me nearly outta my skin.
I get outta my bunk and slide down the greased up copper rod ta get to the Engine R…
When Lady Blackbird returns to her room she finds a torn wedge of brown paper with crude writing and black fingerprints on her pillow (which now also has black fingerprints on it).
Deer MIZ Lady Ship,
Thanx fir teechen mee that i’m a VOYD blud. Et…
Reading over the thread, I think I missed a bombshell yesterday. So Drabbler, the middling midwife, told the Lady she was pregnant before she got separated from Uriah last?
I put my hands in my pocket to try to dry em out. I concentrate on makin a little circle in the dirt with my shoe.
Nah, it ain’t so important. The Lady said I might-could have some Blood in me and she can teach me howta Channel it. I mean, iffin…
When the Cap comes in I jump up. I can feel my heart pumpin faster than the Owl’s steam pistons behind me.
Cap! You ain’t never gonna believe what happened! Turns out there’s a thing called a “Void--”
He ain’t even looked at me since he came in…
Iffin we’re bein honest, I don’t have much expertise with earnin much a anythin. Could be a nice pool to wade in fer a bit.
I’m thinkin of all the girls (well, most of em were girls) that King Uriah brought into his cabin when I served on his boat…
Also, I think it's really funny that David and I have both settled on "if'n/iffin" as a thing that Cyrus and Kale say.
I love this evolving slang we're coming up with! Still trying to get "brass-beaters" to be a thing though
(Me too!)
I can't help but smile. I have the annoyin urge to hug her, but I drown it down.
So yer gonna teach me? Ha! I wish Drabbler could see this. The best sorcerer in the Blue showin little ol Kale the ways and waves of the Channler's life…
I don't want it to, but gettin congratulations and a pattin does feel nice.
Thanks. Not sure iffin we should break out the caviar champagny just yet though. House-less gutter-crab like me could get hung for usin this kinda stuff. You could be hun…
Ain't no harm in tryin, spose.
I scratch a few lines into my hand. It mostly jus moves around the soot, but there's some red in there that's quick taken by whatever tis that takes that stuff.
I can feel it more than hear it. A dark blue all arou…
“Spit” was the offensive part? Shouldn’t mention the other creative fuels Scow taught me to use for magicin.
I take the spikey thing like I’m holdin a tiny baby made a gold. I close my eyes and wait for the light, or whatever, to wash over me.
……
A memory washes up of Dr. Viceroy an his oh-so-fancy hat beattin the ink outta me as a kitten when I told everyone I had the blood.
"You got so much fancy blood? Den lemmie see it wit me own eyes."
I turn away from her.
Nah, nope. Impossibl…