Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page165 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Chapter 22<\/strong> \u201cTwo ships going out today!\u201d bellows BlackDog, \u201cnorf of Fflint there\u2019s bounty coming down from Douglas, silver if we\u2019re lucky, and they\u2019ll have other metals too. And because we \u2018ave two ships, you\u2019re all needed on board. Where\u2019s that SpudMutt? You\u2019re not getting on my ship! TallyBen, make sure he\u2019s on the Blackbird. <\/em>Sort it out!\u201d<\/p>\n BlackDog walks back to join the other officers who are quietly surveying the misshapen ranks of the conscripts.<\/p>\n Lieutenant Slender is there, trying to focus on the usual rabble, but she\u2019s finding it difficult to stop herself from fixating on MickeyWarr. He\u2019s standing next to SpudGunn at one end of the line.<\/p>\n His mind is on something else though, not Slender. He\u2019s been looking around at everybody and everything. Perhaps there were one or two brief spells of eye contact, but the suppressed smiles on both their faces said only, \u201cgood morning, nice to see you,\u201d and little else.<\/p>\n MickeyWarr certainly wasn\u2019t paying attention to BlackDog\u2019s pep talk! Something about two ships if he remembers correctly, and something about keeping SpudGunn away from him. MickeyWarr is busy on other things, trying to build a map in his head detailing the layout of the dock complex.<\/p>\n Slender can\u2019t pick out any thought patterns. There are thirty people on the dockside, and others on board the two ships. A few more people are standing by the stores and by the main gate. There\u2019s simply too much noise on the wavelengths.<\/p>\n However, she can see that MickeyWarr is concentrating on something, even though she has no idea what. Probably an escape plan, or at least a skiving plan, a plan to avoid working aboard either ship. That\u2019s the sort of thing that the smart people think about.<\/p>\n But what seems really odd is that MickeyWarr is sticking close to SpudGunn.<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page165 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page165 \u2013 Next Chapter 22 A Delicate Question \u201cTwo ships going out today!\u201d bellows BlackDog, \u201cnorf of Fflint there\u2019s bounty coming down from Douglas, silver if we\u2019re lucky, and they\u2019ll have other metals too. And because we \u2018ave two ships, you\u2019re all needed on board. Where\u2019s that SpudMutt? You\u2019re not getting on … Continue reading “Chapter 22 A Delicate Question165”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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