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captainhornblower) wrote2011-05-05 06:44 pm
captainhornblower) wrote2011-05-05 06:44 pm
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First Dispatch - [written]
[The penmanship is formal, letters close together but not connected. Each letter is made of strokes, an almost calligraphy style-- which translates into broken letters with a modern pen.]
Thursday, 10th January, 1805
[A hastily scrawled question mark appears above the date a moment later.]
My precise location is unknown. [A long pause before more words are written.] My general location is unknown. My ship and men are missing.God help me, what has happened?
[Notes appear in the margins, wind direction and estimations of its speed. The word 'drift?' and the beginnings of a mathematical formula are etched into a margin.]
I do not know how I came to be where I am. [Another margin note: 'wings???'] I cannot expect this to even be found, but I will record my observations. It is all I can do, and I must do something.
Currently on board vessel. [Another note in the margins:
'unoccupied
single mast
no flags
enemy?
ally?
neutral party?
abandoned?']
May the Lord have mercy on me.
[The signature is larger, even more carefully penned.]
Hornblower
Thursday, 10th January, 1805
[A hastily scrawled question mark appears above the date a moment later.]
My precise location is unknown. [A long pause before more words are written.] My general location is unknown. My ship and men are missing.
[Notes appear in the margins, wind direction and estimations of its speed. The word 'drift?' and the beginnings of a mathematical formula are etched into a margin.]
I do not know how I came to be where I am. [Another margin note: 'wings???'] I cannot expect this to even be found, but I will record my observations. It is all I can do, and I must do something.
Currently on board vessel. [Another note in the margins:
'unoccupied
single mast
no flags
enemy?
ally?
neutral party?
abandoned?']
[The signature is larger, even more carefully penned.]
Hornblower
[ voice ]
[ she sounds more confident than smug, but still. really, dawn? ]
[ voice ]
[Not that he's being sarcastic at all, no.]
[ voice ]
I should probably-- [ let archie come get you so you can do that bonding stuff, stop digging a hole-- ] Go see if my roommates are home. Try not to touch the wings, okay? And just in case no one else said it, don't pull on the feathers. Seriously, don't.
[ voice ]
[Once he knows who you are, Dawn? You'll get an apology. And there may be subtle grovelling. He has no idea the kind of hole he's dug for himself.]
[ voice ]
[ there's genuine warmth in her voice, the source of which will be explained later; archie missed him, and snappy or not that means dawn is happy he's here. and short of actually being cruel, horatio, you get the first day pass plus a sincere need for archie's best friend to like her. water, bridge. ]