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(19 - an underwater kiss)
Its become unclear how it got to this point by now — who officially dared who, what the argument was about beforehand, whether you've decided you like or hate the softspoken stranger with a smile wider than even yours. You'd remembered to remove your coats, but not your hats, and its a miracle neither of you lost your glasses.
By the time you're ringing out your hair, and wondering why you did that, you're stuck unable to shake the the sense that something was... off. A feeling like that one you get when something terrible, hollow and ancient looms beneath your ship, waiting to swallow it up. You turn over the parting gift — an ivory bird, with eyes in its jaw and teeth in its beak — and try to shake the foreboding sense that the Scrimshander can hold its breath for a long, long time.












