Catching Up

[rix_scaedu]

I wrote this to aldersprig's fifth prompt, "A family reunited."  It follows on from The Accidental Prodigal.

Everyone had returned to the sitting room and the younger family members had come in from the garden. Ludwina, tea in hand, was the centre of attention. “It’s been years since anyone’s called me that,” she told them. “It’s been Frack or,

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[aldersprig]

Aw, poor lady

[rix_scaedu]

Yes. On the other hand the away team on a pirate ship or a privateer is not a Star Trek-style away team, much more exactly like a boarding party...

[aldersprig]

I would like more of this lady's story.

[rix_scaedu]

I'll see what I can do...

[tuftears]

'front' a Naval Penal Board? By which I'm guessing she's to be in front of one? Oh dear.

And if she's out on parole, I'm surprised the parole officer isn't there... Or perhaps he or she is there already and just keeping out of sight.

[rix_scaedu]

She may have given her word to return, with the promise that they'll find her if she doesn't. Electronic tracking is also a possibility.

[tuftears]

I got the impression of a turn-of-the-century style novel set in perhaps Napoleonic terms, but now that I think on it, 'blacklight' and 'transfer station' implies a more technological setting!

[rix_scaedu]

Yes, exactly! Bounce!

[kelkyag]

Not the same world that Rune is in? Or that Mayin is in? Maybe in a different time?

Lots not to tell her parents.

"the last survivor from that purchased coffle of help"
Calling them "help" seems ... even snarkier than that term usually does.

[rix_scaedu]

It could be the same world as The Squad, in an earlier timeframe.

[kelkyag]

That'd be nifty, too. (Not to try to shoehorn it in if it shouldn't go!)