I always like the arrival of the newcomers. It's refreshing, really.

I wonder how long you will last.

[Private to Judas]

If you're moping, stop. We need to talk.

[Private to the Marquis]

Have you made any progress on getting me in the library?

Also...Major West. Is he gone for good?

Define loyalty. In both a personal and, well, professional sense.

( Private to Sexby and Marquis )

Another flood to mark off the list. At least this one was less violent than others I've been a part of. I hesitate to wonder what comes next, but, I have to admit that I'm curious.

I had forgotten what it felt like to mark time by disasters. Deaths. Assaults. Floods. Ports. They all tell the time better than days do. After all, I do not remember ( Read more... )

Are we finished with this business now? Is it safe to come out of our spice protected rooms? I think I would have felt better being guarded by something exotic, like paprika. Or perhaps anise.

If we want to get everyone in a panic about something, why just use salt?

Private to Judas

I assume you made it through alright. When you get a chance, come and ( Read more... )

I have heard it once said that a mirror does not lie. That it reveals the best and the worst of a person, without judgment, without fail. Perhaps this is true in most cases. Perhaps in most worlds. But not here.

Yet another thing the Barge is not consistent on.

I hate this body.

( Private to the Marquis and Judas )

Who honestly believes this is a lull? There is always death, destruction and deceit aboard this Barge. There is never calm, if you sit still enough to see it. Ripples in a calm pond can mean mayhem under the surface.

I need something new to read. I have gone through Whitman, Frost and Keats. I need something...new to calm the spirit.

[Private to ( Read more... )

[Private to the Admiral]

My inmate, the Marquis de Sade, is to have all of his posting privileges returned to him.

[Private to West]

You do not trust me and I do not trust you. That, I can accept. However, I need help, and you seem the type to do so. This is not for me, but for someone else. An innocent in all of this.

He will die, or worse, if this ( Read more... )

Ah, a relative calm in the everyday goings on of the Barge. I think, after three months of being here, I am starting to enjoy these lulls. Though New York was an interesting place, but it is comforting to be back in the familiar.

Since when did the Barge become familiar? Or comfortable?

( Notes for the Marquis and Judas )

Merry Christmas and thank you and all that.

Also, where did this carving come from? It is a wolf...and rather strange and out of place.

( Private to the Marquis )

Marquis, could you spare something for warmth? This room is hardly tolerable with the change the temperature. I will have to take to sleeping in the common room if this continues.
( Private to Judas but, as always, readable by the Marquis )