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Stede and Ed shoot the shit after an anticlimactic raid - and get a bit vulnerable.
Stede shifted in his seat and adjusted his arm around Ed’s shoulders, claiming an uncomfortable sitting position (“splinters in my ass—“), and settled up against Ed’s side. He couldn’t be certain whether Stede had intended to sit so close to him—probably doesn’t even notice, he presumed—but nonetheless he was elated. And it was probably just the moving around that had raised Stede’s heart rate, he’d concluded.
Except that after thirty seconds, he could still feel Stede’s heart beating against the back of his rib cage.“You alright, man?” Blackbeard asked, breaking the thick silence.
“‘Course, why do you ask?” Stede looked nervous.
“Heart's beating pretty hard over there,” he explained.
“…Is it?” Stede swallowed audibly. “Must be my blood pressure… Roach is pretty liberal with the salt.”
“Really? I thought dinner was rather bland, myself. Coulda used more salt, in fact.”
As Stede tried to think of a believable response, Blackbeard’s inner voice shouted at him.