[He'd rather be able to joke about this, to ease his own feeling of foreboding with defiant nonchalance, but Kit has reason to worry. Vandelin knows he does. And it's been a long, long while since he had anyone but his cousin to worry about his safety--and that, as far as he knows, intermittently at best.]
I keep wishing you were here, too. If I had you around, it'd be a vacation, not a shipwreck. [This is the least significant of many reasons he wishes Kit were here, and he suspects that Kit knows that, but it's the one he'll admit aloud.]
Maybe we'll get a chance to come back on purpose someday. I'll be all the card-sharking backup you'd ever need. We'll kick some pirate ass and celebrate with brandy.
...Wait, no, that's Antiva. Imported brandy, then.
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[He'd rather be able to joke about this, to ease his own feeling of foreboding with defiant nonchalance, but Kit has reason to worry. Vandelin knows he does. And it's been a long, long while since he had anyone but his cousin to worry about his safety--and that, as far as he knows, intermittently at best.]
I keep wishing you were here, too. If I had you around, it'd be a vacation, not a shipwreck. [This is the least significant of many reasons he wishes Kit were here, and he suspects that Kit knows that, but it's the one he'll admit aloud.]
Maybe we'll get a chance to come back on purpose someday. I'll be all the card-sharking backup you'd ever need. We'll kick some pirate ass and celebrate with brandy.
...Wait, no, that's Antiva. Imported brandy, then.