Title: Things of Little Worth
Fandom: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Pairing/Characters: Ahab, Starbuck
Rating/Warnings: G
Notes: 1,963 words. Written for Yuletide 2014.
Summary: Ahab and Starbuck, on the homeward voyage after Ahab's first encounter with Moby Dick.
Perhaps God grants respite even off the howling, pagan Patagonian coast, or perhaps it was Starbuck’s hand, which yet lay on Ahab’s leg, the two opposing forces - the frozen fingers and the fevered thigh - having gone some way toward reaching a balance.
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