Whistle as the World Turns
Episode 1: In the Air Tonight
(EarwigShipping)
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord
Rin's feet banged at the side of the ship as he dangled his legs of the starboard-bow. Rin liked to watch the sunrise. He liked the colours of the early morning fog as it danced and billowed over the surface of the ocean.
Biologically, the colour of a person's eye affects what colour or environment they favour. The blue-eyed Patti n' Liz preferred the blue sky and sea, respectively. The green-eyed Milo felt safe in open fields. The Yellow eyed BB chirping happily at the sun.
No brown-eyed people, Rin noticed. The brown-eyed people were always the most realistic in character, but he supposed it was for the best. Rin had no time for realism.
And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Rin's preference for Silver was shown in his plunder. Milo, Ryoko, or Patti would convince him to loot an enemy ship every-so-often, and Rin was back on the ship with an Armful of silver.
Rin liked silver.
Rin was broken from his thoughts by the sound of creaking wood. He turned his head to see Milo. Arguably his best friend and defiantly his most loyal crewmember. Milo was the Helmsman, he took Rin and the ship anywhere, Rin just had to say the word.
But loyalty wasn't Milo's most appealing quality. It was his hair, his shaggy, silver hair with two prongs that stuck out like antenna.
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
Milo stunk of ale as he messily plopped himself onto the deck, next to Rin. He waited a few seconds before saying,
"So what are we looking at?" Milo slurred with a tooth grin, showing the dark rings underneath his eyes.
"Just the sun." Rin said calmly.
"Wha? Milo slurred messily. "The Sun? That the big ball of incandescent gases sitting on the horizon? The colossal nuclear furnace our planet orbits around? The hottest place in our solar system? Where Hydrogen is burnt into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees? The subject of a They Might be Giants single? The Sun?"
"Yes,"
Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand
Milo smiled. "That is a brilliant Idea!" he drunkly shouted as he stood up, slipped and fell overboard.
"MILO!" Rin shouted as he jumped to his feet, ready to get a net to fish the drowning User.
"Woah, I do not envy that one." Said a familiar voice. It was Milo, or rather "A" Milo.
I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am
Milo was like an Amusement Park run by a Monkey. His hours of activity was erratic, his personal maintenance suffered to some degree, and he was famed by women for his giant banana, but he was the most fun anybody could want.
Milo continued to watch his thrashing clone until the waters grew calm. This Milo was sober and was rubbing his rosy palms against his jeans. Rin could just about tell what that meant.
"Sup Captain!" Milo chortled. "Sorry if I died on you back there, I have a tendency to do that."
"I don't mind" Rin said, reassuringly. "You wanna watch the sunrise with me?"
"Eh, why not." Milo said. Milo sat just where his previous carbon copy sat. "So," he said.
"So?" Rin questioned.
"So, tell me those shuffling and grunting sounds one of my clones toldme about yesterday was you and Eiko mattress dancing."
Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with my own two eyes
Rin almost choked. "WHAT, NO!"
"But you planning to go mattress dancing!"
"NO!"
"So she's available for mattress dancing!"
"Don't even think about it!"
"So you ARE anticipating mattress dancing."
"Will you PLEASE stop saying mattress dancing!"' Rin snapped.
"Ok," Milo said. A few minutes of awkward silence passed before Rin poked the elephant in the room.
"So how did you hear those noises, you sleep on the poopdeck?"
"Yeah, but I like to pass the time by hiding another me in everybody's room and see how long it takes for them to get found out. The one who takes the longest to be found doesn't get reabsorbed and is free to run off." Milo explained.
"Dude, that is creepy!"
So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been
Rin inched closer to Milo and looked him in the face.
"So who's been found so far?" he asked.
Milo took Rin's hand and placed it around his shoulder, while using his other hand to firmly grasp the captain's rear.
"You've found me!"
It's all been a pack of lies
Yeah, Rin definatly liked silver.