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Just as Tom is about to turn and go back to his own ship, Stanley’s pen falls still. “Well, Mr. Hartnell?” he enquires without raising his eyes.
“Well, sir… if you’ve a moment—”
“Do I appear busy?”
“No sir. I mean, I don’t know, sir. I wouldn’t presume to assume what—”
“What do you need?”
“My scars, sir, where I got my lashing—they’re off.”
“Off,” the fair-haired man says coolly, at last lifting his impassive gaze from the page before him as he closes the book quietly. “Hardly a useful descriptor.”
“Just… warm-like, is all. Bit itchy.”
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- Part 4 of Terror Events/Prompt Fills