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The Waking Sea, aboard the Sea Cockerels
-Isabela
Pluitanis the tenth... or maybe the eleventh. Balls, I really don't care that much right now.
Caz tells me the mast repairs are done. The crew isn't happy we missed those fried Wintersend balls of dough in Val Chevine, all soaking in honey and sugar and cardamon that just ooze warm and squishy 'sin' enough to inspire a month of sermons.
Especially if you eat them with passion in front of a Repressed Mother.
Not even Orlesian ports will have them anymore.
Jader and then Hercinia after that. The Eastern Sea will have more ships. Overland is too risky of late and any hulk can make a profit if they stay out of trouble. Pickings are thinner because of convoys.
I don't trust the hornheads, they sure hold a grudge without any evidence. I haven't even seen Imperial or Qunari ships last few ports. Castellan took their bloody thing to an Imperial port, but they hold a grudge for that slave shipment too. Pox on them all.
I have my beauty and the open sea.
Ports are another story, and they're awash with the wildest rumors. Portmasters are more excited about uprisings and invasion from the mages. As if they have ships, or the Templars, or maybe the dead elves from the top of Mount NoFun. They'd do better to worry about the Felicisima Armada or their neighbors Marching to feed their bonfires.
I'm glad it's too hard for a March to go out to sea. It might be fun to see the ones in the heavy armor sinking into the mud waving their little arms, wondering why they can't walk on the water. How fast could they take off the armor and how good do they look under that armor, all dripping wet and desperate?
Hmm, that could be a good time for all.
Still anyone smart enough to love the sea has seen more of what the Maker did than most anyone else in Thedas. Everything else is just having fun.
Some people don't know how to have any fun.
Well, now that raises the question of just how the Chantry blows and if it swallows. I'll ask Chantry boy if I see him again. Watching him turn red should be good for a laugh.
Varric must be bored now. I've got a story he doesn't know: about the mighty Champion going the wrong way last year.
Really, I'm not sure about the two of them. I would have expected Merrill to do something bloody before Anders. Hawke really has him by the balls even with that spirit, always did, despite that dance. I was almost beginning to think she didn't like sex much, and that would be a waste.
Hmmm, that ship scene has potential. Enough for sailors at sea. I really should finish my friend-fiction sometime and get it to Varric, it'll be a lot of fun.
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A/N: Any typos that remain are not intentional... Reviews or a PM to let me know what you think would be very appreciated.
