He follows, some anonymous joint cracking loudly as he turns back up the stairs.
"There are certainly easier things I could be doing if it didn't suit me."
It's easy enough that it sounds like a joke of an answer, but it may be the most complete one he can think to give. The work sits in a cross place of necessary and what he knows. The men or ones like them are ones he's known all his life, the sea is constant, the account a requirement. Given his choice, would he prefer some other role for himself?
It's not really a question for a night like this one with the moon all full over the courtyard, masked men and women laughing and dancing, and Ghislain just there on the horizon waiting for them.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2018-11-10 09:46 pm (UTC)"There are certainly easier things I could be doing if it didn't suit me."
It's easy enough that it sounds like a joke of an answer, but it may be the most complete one he can think to give. The work sits in a cross place of necessary and what he knows. The men or ones like them are ones he's known all his life, the sea is constant, the account a requirement. Given his choice, would he prefer some other role for himself?
It's not really a question for a night like this one with the moon all full over the courtyard, masked men and women laughing and dancing, and Ghislain just there on the horizon waiting for them.
"Planning to hire your own ship?"