[SE] walk right in the sight of a gun

JACK

Why? Jack almost asks; why bring it up, he means, having almost been expecting a dissection of the night and how it had somehow shown all the worst things about the two of them. A reason for the way things ending as they had, right at that first opportunity. But Flora doesn't expand on it, and the captain tentatively reaches for his coffee as she settles enough to sip at her smoothie, letting the rest of their food go cold between them without much care.

"Haven't seen any since," he says offhandedly, of the starwhales. "Not that we specifically go lookin' but... not even in passin'." Perhaps they'd come out just for Flora that night.

But then she pivots unexpectedly towards his appearance, of all things, a remark that has Jack raising an eyebrow at her over his sunglasses. Grunting his agreement and lowering his coffee cup, he rolls his shoulder in a shrug that utterly fails to be careless. "Ain't found the time to take a knife to it," he lies. He'd kept it long for the same reason he's been chain smoking and resolving most of his disputes with violence lately; a reason that sits opposite him in the booth.

sometimes we put our hearts in the wrong places
(what the fuck is it doing between your teeth?)

Code stolen from Queen Sky