_-Captain BRM-_
Post Tenebras Lux.
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She couldn't hear him. "Take the coat, I don't want it,"Jintao was rather surprised by Tay's response. "Sacred?" he asked, still holding the coat out to her. "I don't know of any sacred mercantiles." He looked down at his coat. It was never easy to get on with only one arm, and sometimes it was downright embarrassing. If he knew she wouldn't take it, he wouldn't have taken it off. "And this," he lifted the coat a little higher, "isn't sacred. It's just an ordinary sailor's coat."
(@_-Captain BRM-_ , that's ok.)
The rain softened.
Dawn bloomed on the horizon, and she feared her face would be seen.
Wasting time, wasting money.
Fool, fool.
She backed away. "Blessings," she murmured, a sound of habit, not conviction. "Hadn't you work to get off to? Perhaps productivity is in order,"
For both parties, she thought. Some more than others.
She pulled the cloak tight and started down the cobbled street.
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