Ask Newbury
"What do you want?" Captain Morgan asked Shanku gruffly.
"Ever had a mate?" Shanku asked quietly as she tucked her hands behind her back and ducked her head. Her wings were drawn a bit around her nervously.
"That is none of your business," he said sternly.
"No harm in asking," Shanku said with a small smile.
Captain Morgan turned away from her and continued to write his letter.
Shanku stood there for a moment, watching him. An ear flicked down slowly. "What's wrong with Dawson and Scarlet?" she finally exclaimed, hand turned up in front of her.
"Is that why you're here?" the captain asked coldly.
"It doesn't make sense," Shanku said weakly.
"Go to bed. These are matters beyond your years," he replied.
"But— " Shanku began to protest.
"Newbury will explain. Now go," the captain said sharply. He dipped his pen into his inkwell.
"We're not so bad, y'know," Shanku said sadly over her shoulder as she turned to leave.
Rats. Shanku sat on a barrel outside his cabin and crossed her arms and legs. She sat there quietly for a few moments. He hadn't even heard her out! Just sent her own away. With a sigh, Shanku got up and made her way up to the crow's nest where she often spent her voyages with Dawson.
Notes & Commentary
October 27, 2011, Thursday
Ask Newbury
Subtlety is not her strongest trait.
What kid likes getting that line? "You're too little. Go away." So the captain behaves a bit differently with kids than with adults, even if it's a species that's given him fits.
Two more days also marks two whole years that Just Another Day has been online. Wow... Two years ago I was single and at home, bored out of my head and passing time with the comic. Now I've got one year left of school, I'm married, and I have a baby on the way. Daggum. Well, I reckon in honor of two years, Shanku is being her little conniving self, just like when she first met Dai outside of the Nyre.
Sorry this one's so late. My past few days have been with dealing with the so lovely Unemployment Office. "Will you quit school for a full time job?" No, I will not quit school for a dead-end, low-pay job. Especially when my eventual career will be tracking down cyber criminals. Preferrably some of those losers that like to play with bank scams. "Well, screw you, you lazy bum with no direction in life, you will not receive unemployment. It's your own fault for getting fired. You should learn to accept sexual harassment." Gee, thanks! Likely when I get done with them I'll be contacting the Department of Labor. Rumor has it you can't fire a waitress for refusing to lay a customer.
Next degree will be at another college likely getting a degree in either programming or webdesign, like I wanted to. ITT Tech refused to let me do programming because "you're too social to spend hours pouring over code" and now I'm stuck with computer networking systems. Oh, yeah, never believe any of those shoddy ITT Tech commercials. They are, indeed, actors. No real student from ITT Tech talks highly of the school.
Characters - Shanku Ravenwing - Captain John Morgan -
Tags - Just Another Day -
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