JACK
Jack wants to make a quip about Saiden choosing to fix his soup over his personality, but he instead focuses on the trunk they’re shoving between them. ”Shipwrecks,” he says through a grunt. ”They weight ‘em down with stones, hide our trades in there. I buried this a week or so back. Any luck, my shit’ll be gone and there’s will have taken its place.” Pausing once the trunk is out in the open, Jack straightens up and huffs out a few breaths, kicking the thing for good measure.
”You’d be amazed, the shit that mers want.” Leaning in, Jack cracks open the trunk and stands back, already sweating from the heat and the exertion. Within the box are a few predictably weighty stones, and a few items wrapped in wet rags. Among them are opalescent pearls on strings, vials of squid ink, shark fangs, and a lot of jewellery that also looks like it’s gone down with a ship. Jack nods, reasonably satisfied. ”It’ll do. Take your pick, Hali. You earned your share.”
”You’d be amazed, the shit that mers want.” Leaning in, Jack cracks open the trunk and stands back, already sweating from the heat and the exertion. Within the box are a few predictably weighty stones, and a few items wrapped in wet rags. Among them are opalescent pearls on strings, vials of squid ink, shark fangs, and a lot of jewellery that also looks like it’s gone down with a ship. Jack nods, reasonably satisfied. ”It’ll do. Take your pick, Hali. You earned your share.”
you wanted perfect, you got your perfect
but now I'm too perfect for someone like you
but now I'm too perfect for someone like you
