angelo and the hickster's post-belle arctic adventures

[spotsalone]

CORNELIUS HICKEY
caulker's mate (T)
alive

ANGELO SAUPER
lieutenant (NZ)
alive

SOLOMON TOZER
marine, sergeant (T)
alive

GEORGE HODGSON
lieutenant (T)
alive

MAGNUS MANSON
ab (T)
alive

EDWARD LITTLE
lieutenant (T)
alive, 1 hp

CHARLES DES VOEUX
mate (E)
alive

WILLIAM PILKINGTON
marine, private (E)
alive

JOHN LANE
boatswain (T)
alive

JOHN DIGGLE
cook (T)
alive, lung damage

JOHN SULLIVAN
capt. of the maintop (E)
alive

JAMES RIGDEN
coxswain (E)
alive

ROBERT FERRIER
ab (T)
alive

ROBERT THOMAS
mate (T)
dead, scurvy

THOMAS ARMITAGE
gunroom steward (T)
dead, tuunbaq

JAMES DALY
marine, private (T)
dead, tuunbaq

EDMUND HOAR
captain's steward (E)
dead, tuunbaq

THOMAS TERRY
boatswain (E)
dead, scurvy

THOMAS WORK
ab (T)
dead, scurvy

HARRY GOODSIR
surgeon (E)
alive, rescued

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angelo cr chart
mutineers cr chart...

timeline:

• arrival; late july, mutineers' hill
  
• tent chats; early august, temporary camp
  
• spotting the ships; late august, terror camp
  
• tuunbaq attack; sept 1, ice floe camp
  
• boarding terror; fellas it's gay; early sept, hms terror
  
• dog to dog communication; early sept, forecastle
  
• bark bark bark; early sept, on deck
  
• coat! and post-tozer debrief; early sept, angelo's cabin
  
• 🌶️; early sept, hickey's cabin
  
• the dogs are unionizing(?); mid sept, cargo hold
  
• tozer/captain stuff, look at them having an adult conversation; mid sept, greatroom
  
• little rescue mission; early oct, terror bay
  
• post-little debrief; early oct, hickey's cabin

Comments

[cleansheets]

[ ... ah. Angelo frowns. It's a pretty reasonable question, but it definitely doesn't work that way. The question is why that is, and he's not sure he has the answer memorized. ]

No, the sun doesn't really light up space, it's-- Wait, no. They bundle sunlight with mirrors for the open type colonies, don't they...?

[ He cuts himself off, displeased with the way he's tripping himself up without delivering an explanation that Hickey will find in any way satisfactory. He's never in his life had the levity to care about how stuff works - to him it matters that it does, and making sure it does is someone else's problem. This means that Hickey's earnest and insatiable curiosity is quite the difficulty to overcome.

Finally letting go of Hickey's hands, Angelo turns towards the door to Hickey's cabin. ]

Ugh. It's too cold to have this talk standing in the middle of the room - let's at least get comfortable first.

[ Once they're settled on the mattress, bodies huddled close under the same blanket, Angelo manages to muster up a bit more patience for thinking about the laws of light and space. His explanations are halting and filled with guesswork to patch them out, but Hickey seems happy enough to keep pestering him with more questions so... maybe it's not all bad.

It's only Hickey who could relentlessly bug him about gaps in his education without making Angelo bite his head off sooner rather than later. An unknown dynamic, created only for them and between them. It makes Angelo feel a little strange when he finally disentangles and sneaks back through the greatroom to his own room.

He knows love, knows it as intense and overwhelming, but he does not know the sensation of falling. Does Hickey feel it when they sit together like this? ]