The Captain's Lament 🔥[Gelli + Fang]
In which Bones, Elliot, Gem, and Wolf summon the Captain for answers...[takes place: June 16]
directly follows Slow is the Quicksand...
@elliot-morey, @bones-weary, @wolf-innsheepsclothing
[cw -- non-descriptive descriptions of drowning]
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GEM: Right, well, the harbingers of doom were gone.
Thank bloody fuck for that. Gem didn’t need any more stress or he was gonna get an ulcer on the ulcer he could already feel developing. Not to mention the migraine. He really did need a fucking nap. He wished he could curl up again on the settee in the Rose Room. He remembered the touch of Snow’s fingers in his hair like a ghost.
Bad metaphor.
Gem pulled a face as they headed into the garden. The day was overcast. The air damp. The ground damp too, from the storm last night. It squelched under their shoes as the pathetic party made their way to an unassuming patch of ground far enough away from the plants in the neat rows so as not to disturb them as they set up the candles Elliot had brought.
Despite having a medium for a brother, Gem had never actually participated in a summoning.
The whole thing kind of gave him the creeps.
When he died, he would like to stay dead. No haunting the narrative for him. Please and thank you.
“Right, so--how does this work exactly?” he asked his big brother, as he finished lighting the last of the candles. He put his hands on his hips as he scrutinized the middle of the circle where nothing was at all.
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[link here]
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