"Perhaps then." His voice is strained. It's not just the captain in him, trained to protect his ship. Britannia is more than that. It's a taste of home, something that ties him to this place and to England and to what he is only just less than Archie and William and Wellard do.

With them and on board this ship, he feels a little more at home.

"Then." It's a little more decisive. "I've already proven I can't be anything but what I am, and I am an officer of His Majesty's Royal Navy."