Two if by Sea (13/?)

Well! I didn't expect to be back this soon with the next part, but that's the way it goes sometime. (It kind of helps that I had the bones of this just waiting around...) I'm going to strike while the iron is hot, you know?

Previous parts of the story found here.

( Come sail away with me? (part 13/?) )

I'm hoping I made it clear enough that the first part is from several years previous in the storyline, and that the second is more recent. I suppose this is one of those oddly interstitial chapters, like whichever one it was that had the ballad in it, but I'm very fond of this one. (It was fun, too, to switch up the writing style a bit.)

~later