Of course Fitzjames picks up the arrow and bloody hands it to Raju, of course he does. If he didn’t love him so damn much he would have been reminded of exactly why they hadn’t gotten along at the beginning of things, why he’d loathed this golden boy of the Royal Navy. This exact type of bravado in the face of very clear and rather tangible danger is just who James Fitzjames is as a man.
And Rama - well, Rama looks like he’s seen a ghost. He’d nearly fired an arrow into Crozier’s second, the man he’d heard countless stories about and whose death haunted Crozier on a continual basis. It would have been horrific!
The coolness between the two men - both very dear to him - doesn’t completely dishearten him. He does have food and tea to offer, and they’ll sit and be civilized and all will be well, or else. He can be commanding still when he wants to be.
“Mn. And doesn’t taste of an old pile of mulch at that,” he says over his shoulder, heading back into the comfort and warmth of their cabin. They’ll follow inside, and in the meantime he’ll busy himself by playing host, which doesn’t at all come naturally to him but he does know how to care for people.
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Of course Fitzjames picks up the arrow and bloody hands it to Raju, of course he does. If he didn’t love him so damn much he would have been reminded of exactly why they hadn’t gotten along at the beginning of things, why he’d loathed this golden boy of the Royal Navy. This exact type of bravado in the face of very clear and rather tangible danger is just who James Fitzjames is as a man.
And Rama - well, Rama looks like he’s seen a ghost. He’d nearly fired an arrow into Crozier’s second, the man he’d heard countless stories about and whose death haunted Crozier on a continual basis. It would have been horrific!
The coolness between the two men - both very dear to him - doesn’t completely dishearten him. He does have food and tea to offer, and they’ll sit and be civilized and all will be well, or else. He can be commanding still when he wants to be.
“Mn. And doesn’t taste of an old pile of mulch at that,” he says over his shoulder, heading back into the comfort and warmth of their cabin. They’ll follow inside, and in the meantime he’ll busy himself by playing host, which doesn’t at all come naturally to him but he does know how to care for people.