Evangeline chuckles, "No women? How strange. Might as well say no redheads, or darkeyes."
"Didn't seem to help him much though, forgive me for saying. Superstition can't hold back fate." She grins, "Oh? Actually, perhaps I figured it out. If the crew thought you looked like a woman, perhaps the gods and fates did as well. If only they had picked an uglier cabin boy, perhaps they would have been safer."
She hefts the pistol, "Yes, it's feeling more natural..." She turns to him, "Actually, have I ever told you? The reason I am so fixated on these?" Taking a deep breath the soothing scent of gunsmoke, "Bombs and guns, explosives and powder?"
"Didn't seem to help him much though, forgive me for saying. Superstition can't hold back fate." She grins, "Oh? Actually, perhaps I figured it out. If the crew thought you looked like a woman, perhaps the gods and fates did as well. If only they had picked an uglier cabin boy, perhaps they would have been safer."
She hefts the pistol, "Yes, it's feeling more natural..." She turns to him, "Actually, have I ever told you? The reason I am so fixated on these?" Taking a deep breath the soothing scent of gunsmoke, "Bombs and guns, explosives and powder?"
