Sunless Sea: Lineage
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100wordsTitle: Lineage
Fandom: Sunless Sea (ish)
Rating: G
Notes: Been playing too much Sunless Sea again. Apologies to my neglected child.
Fandom: Sunless Sea (ish)
Rating: G
Notes: Been playing too much Sunless Sea again. Apologies to my neglected child.
Day one ashore, the captain brings him bone-dice and spiced sweets, smiles tolerantly at his chatter.
Day three he is a nuisance, cast impatiently from underfoot.
“Go with them on the ship next tide,” his friend urges, practising cartwheels on cobblestones. “Stow away! Haul anchor!”
Her ragged clothes would turn his wounded longing into a childish whine, so the boy turns his face away, sulks louder. “Get thrown overboard, more like. Don’t know why Da bothers with them.”
Don’t know why they keep pretending with us.
“Feeding baitfish,” the urchin says, smiling slyly, and topsy-tails quickly away from his consternation.
Day three he is a nuisance, cast impatiently from underfoot.
“Go with them on the ship next tide,” his friend urges, practising cartwheels on cobblestones. “Stow away! Haul anchor!”
Her ragged clothes would turn his wounded longing into a childish whine, so the boy turns his face away, sulks louder. “Get thrown overboard, more like. Don’t know why Da bothers with them.”
Don’t know why they keep pretending with us.
“Feeding baitfish,” the urchin says, smiling slyly, and topsy-tails quickly away from his consternation.
