Word Count Day 19

[essayel]

Haven't posted for a day or two because I got ambushed by a heaping helping of "WTF am I playing at?" and lost the plot for a day or two. However I've made up for it now and am back on course.

And here's an up to date


“Funniest thing I ever saw,” Protheroe said to his messmates. “Damn me if it wasn’t. Our Kit was up that mast like a treed cat. Only came down because he needed to piss and didn’t think he’d make the side from the masthead.”
“I would,” Lewis stated proudly.
“That’s because you have a long nine, me dear, but the lad only has a little swivel gun, bless his heart.” Protheroe spoke loudly and with some affection, and with a total lack of concern that Kit was ‘sleeping’ in his hammock just a few paces away.
Kit couldn’t think of anything he could do other than keep his eyes closed and his breathing even. He could hardly challenge Protheroe as a liar when nothing he had said was untrue – apart from maybe the bit about the swivel gun, because there was no way Protheroe could know.
“Oh yes?” Maxwell, a short and cheerful Scot, had been sold as an indentured servant after getting mixed up in some respect in the 1715 rebellion. He certainly wasn’t a fire breathing Jacobite so Kit suspected he had just followed the wrong leader. “How’d you find that out then? Do you know about this Lewis?”
“Oh course,” Lewis sounded as though he was grinning. “Me and my carwr helped pick Kit up and put him to bed when Denny wanted to mop the floor in the captain’s cabin and he was sleeping in a puddle. Couldn’t not look, could we.” He must have made some kind of gesture because there was a snuffle of laughter.
“He had been very cold – for a very long time,” Protheroe pointed out kindly then his voice changed as he grunted and said, “Look sharp, everyone. Here comes Wigram.”

Comments

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

yayness . iwas missing those. good to know you've got the thing back on track. how do you pronounce protheroe though? is that gree kor something else? i want this book either in hardcover or someoen askign you to join in a bbc efford for a miniseries. please? this is the stuffthat might get everone out of the pit of zombies and back to the ocean? or something?

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I can't promise either tv or hardbacks but I'll send you a PDF if you like?

Protheroe is a Welsh name. Pronounced with the 'o' as in odd, 'the' as in the and the other 'oe' as snow. He and Lewis are 'best friends'.

[cweb.livejournal.com]

I'd be pretending to sleep, too:)

I love this story:)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

:D I haven't posted any of the saucy bits, yet. That might make you think again.