Tristran eventually finds his way into the dining room, next to the kitchen (which he is enthusiastically delighted to hear them call the galley, as they did in many of the pirate stories he read as a kid) and is led to the captain's table -- even if there is no other table within the mess, anyway.
Still, the table quickly fills with Meggot, the captain and five other crew members sitting around it, all content with letting Captain Alberic do the talking with an ale-pot in one hand and a pipe in the other (when it isn't shoveling food into his mouth).
The food is wonderful. He eats as much as he can stomache, relishing the soup (full of scrumptious steamed vegetables), and the sweetest, chilled water he's ever had the pleasure of tasting.
Conversation goes by with neither of them asking questions about their personal lives (as Tristran would not feel comfortable to answer anything and so he did not volunteer).
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Date: 2007-05-16 03:41 am (UTC)Still, the table quickly fills with Meggot, the captain and five other crew members sitting around it, all content with letting Captain Alberic do the talking with an ale-pot in one hand and a pipe in the other (when it isn't shoveling food into his mouth).
The food is wonderful. He eats as much as he can stomache, relishing the soup (full of scrumptious steamed vegetables), and the sweetest, chilled water he's ever had the pleasure of tasting.
Conversation goes by with neither of them asking questions about their personal lives (as Tristran would not feel comfortable to answer anything and so he did not volunteer).