This was the part where they parted ways awkwardly. He doesn't really buy that smile especially given all that happened before and all that lay in the future. If he was only the kind of person that-- didn't cause that kind of thing.
Maybe in the future he would be. But right now there was just him and Ed and the open water-- where they both belonged, really. Or Stede wanted to which was near enough the same thing.
"Come on, Ed..." He smiles a bit. "Swim with me a while. I'll tell you a story. It'll even be a good one."
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This was the part where they parted ways awkwardly. He doesn't really buy that smile especially given all that happened before and all that lay in the future. If he was only the kind of person that-- didn't cause that kind of thing.
Maybe in the future he would be. But right now there was just him and Ed and the open water-- where they both belonged, really. Or Stede wanted to which was near enough the same thing.
"Come on, Ed..." He smiles a bit. "Swim with me a while. I'll tell you a story. It'll even be a good one."