I have found it is both a blessing and a curse
With Koa and now Melita reacting so delightfully to his expanding confidence and mischief, they are setting a terrible example that only feeds into his newfound convictions, surely turning him into more of a quick-tongued monster. For now though he merely grins, positively delighted to have made her laugh so uproariously. "I think you'd be a better Captain, you should just throw him overboard," he stage-whispers, though perhaps he's a little biased given Jack had sided with Flora in what had become a blood feud Jude wants no part of. Plus Jack just sort of gives him the creeps. "I haven't been yet. I'm guessing it's not worth the trip then?" Land improvements or otherwise.
She doesn't pry, and for that she has pretty much guaranteed a friend for life. "I went to Stormbreak recently for exactly that reason," he confides on a small laugh. The Wilds are more his speed, but it had been a good change of pace. Taking his meat off the grill and setting it on a prepared plate to the side, he extends the tongs towards her so she can utilize the entire thing for herself and laughs at the idea of skills. "I'd be best as a maid. I have noodle arms and I burn at the first sight of sunlight. But I'm a good cook and pretty tidy, and dad has taught me acrobatics and hand-to-hand." Nothing to do with weapons yet, but Harper wasn't much of a weapons man himself either, so Jude has no clue what he might be good at there.
She doesn't pry, and for that she has pretty much guaranteed a friend for life. "I went to Stormbreak recently for exactly that reason," he confides on a small laugh. The Wilds are more his speed, but it had been a good change of pace. Taking his meat off the grill and setting it on a prepared plate to the side, he extends the tongs towards her so she can utilize the entire thing for herself and laughs at the idea of skills. "I'd be best as a maid. I have noodle arms and I burn at the first sight of sunlight. But I'm a good cook and pretty tidy, and dad has taught me acrobatics and hand-to-hand." Nothing to do with weapons yet, but Harper wasn't much of a weapons man himself either, so Jude has no clue what he might be good at there.
to feel everything so deeply and insistently
JUDE
