ninetoes: (a drink of that promise land)
Izzy Hands ([personal profile] ninetoes) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway 2022-08-23 09:20 pm (UTC)

Izzy glances over before returning his gaze forward. It’s not an eye roll but it’s not not an eye roll, either.

Absently, he plays with the cuff of his single glove.

“And that is exactly why I don’t want to talk about it. But seeing as you’re going to keep me in this carriage until you’re satisfied..”

And seeing as he folds like a fucking book when he thinks he’s outmatched, here we are.

“Shortly before I came to this vessel Blackbeard and Bonnet threw their lives away.”

Scenes he sees with vivid detail behind his closed lids every night. It all plays out in torturous slow motion. Blackbeard feels no fear, huh. Turns out he feared one thing after all.

“I gave him every chance but… they signed themselves over to the service of the crown.”

Selfish, traitorous-
Izzy told himself he’d put this to bed, but the bike sits fresh in the back of his throat. He’s tried so hard.

“Ship needed a captain.”

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