Fourteenth Dispatch - [written]

[captainhornblower]

[He's been here a year now.

An entire year.

And it doesn't feel any more like home than it did the day he arrived. If anything, his obligations feel even sharper than they did then. Because he has been away from them. Even if no one would know he'd been gone, he knew.]

Person or thing, either way--

What would you most like to see here?

Hornblower

Comments

[ written ]

[herotypical]

Easy. [ it isn't. ] My house. [ her mom. ]

--BS

[ written ]

[captainhornblower]

Make it feel a little more like home?

[ written ]

[herotypical]

And because that might be the only way to ever really see it again. Yeah.

[ written ]

[captainhornblower]

Understandable, certainly.

[ written ]

[herotypical]

You?

[cop_an_attitude]

A portal to London.

Or a Masala Zone.

[ written ]

[captainhornblower]

I've never been to London. Fond of Portsmouth, though.

What, if I may ask, is "Masala Zone"?

Re: [ written ]

[cop_an_attitude]

Portsmouth's all right. Ever been to New Theatre Royal?

It's a restaurant. Indian food. I discovered yesterday that I don't actually have the slightest idea how to make a rogan josh.

[ written ]

[captainhornblower]

I've never heard of it, I'm afraid, and I know little about India at all, much less their cuisine.

There are places in London that serve it? Curious.

Re: [ written ]

[cop_an_attitude]

You can't walk two steps in London without tripping over a curry place. ...What year are you from?

[Written]

[fierybluebird]

Any of my other brothers would be nice.

How about you?

[Written]

[captainhornblower]

My family. My wife, specifically.

[Written]

[fierybluebird]

Good answer. This place is especially unkind about breaking up families.

How long has it been, if you do not mind my asking?

[Written]

[captainhornblower]

I've been here a year since yesterday.

Yourself?

[Written]

[fierybluebird]

Another week for me and it'll be a year.

[Written]

[rollypolyclover]

[Brace yourself for the terrible writing of a five year old.]

Daddyyy! And Ena and Fuuka and Asagi an Jumboo and... Lots of ice cram and candy and Jurlumin too.

[Written]

[captainhornblower]

[Aw, a kid.]

Those all sound like quite important things.

[Written]

[rollypolyclover]

Rally important! Becaus Yotsuba likes all those things and loves Daddy, an Daddy loves Yotsuba lots and lots, even more than he likes working and being Boxerman.

[Written]

[captainhornblower]

And your daddy isn't here?

Is your mother?

[Written]

[rollypolyclover]

Nooo Daddy is back hoem. But Yotsuba stil loves Daddy even if he's late!

Yotsuba doesn't have a momy just Daddy. Hes the best at being Daddy.

[action]

[simplestgift]

[Archie is going to pop in on Horatio without warning.]

Horatio. Dinner in the captain's cabin, the three of us.

[action]

[captainhornblower]

[Horatio looks toward the door and smiles a bit.]

Very well, then.

Any specific time I should present myself, Mister Kennedy?

[action]

[simplestgift]

Whenever you'd like to eat. You may come help me cook, if you like. You might learn a thing or two, after being here a year.

[action]

[captainhornblower]

I'd be happy to.

[action]

[simplestgift]

Then come along. [He's not going to wait for you, Horatio. He starts away from the door and walks down the hall, still talking, raising his voice so he can be heard.] I'll need your help carrying things, at any rate. Only so many hands.