Kitty nods a little bit. Right. There are doubtless ways of making them happy, but with a huge cost - just like how she could have led the Resistance out on additional raids, but at incalculable risk. How dreadful a thing it must be for Captain Flint. For Vane and the others, too, of course, but Vane has a sort of natural camaraderie with his men that Kitty's seen every time she's been up in the rigging. Flint needs to calm his crew without the advantage of Vane's natural stoic charm, when his crew are accustomed to action and excitement and adrenaline - and when they're surrounded by tempting targets, the sort they'd have claimed in their earlier piratical career.
"Would you have tea with me?" Kitty asks, suddenly. She finds that she's got a sudden hunger to talk with him about this, about all the entanglements and difficulties of being in charge. "Before you go back to them?" And then, with her most charming smile - "I promise I won't make you steal any wine for me."
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Date: 2018-11-09 04:10 pm (UTC)"Would you have tea with me?" Kitty asks, suddenly. She finds that she's got a sudden hunger to talk with him about this, about all the entanglements and difficulties of being in charge. "Before you go back to them?" And then, with her most charming smile - "I promise I won't make you steal any wine for me."