As with their first meeting, Lolotaru didn't see Joz until he had almost stepped on her. He was in something of a hurry, arriving several hours later than he had intended, and his head was cloudy from replacing sleep with wine.
Despite the sad and tense beginnings of his meeting with Styrmsthal the night before, they had ended up running fast from sleep with wine and revelry, as they always seemed to when meeting in the vicinity of alcohol. They had, of course, had to remove themselves from the Bismarck, but the Drowning Wench was built for just such raucousness. Had the Mizzenmast not been connected to the Wench, Lolo may never have found his way back to his room.
And so it was, in light of the contents of Styrmsthal's report and the cloudiness of Lolotaru's mind, that he stopped the descent of his foot just shy of Joz's kinked tail--Funny, never noticed that before--and allowed a very obvious species of shock to appear on his face before slowly and clumsily composing himself.
"Ah...er...good morn--uh...good afternoon, Miss Joz," he said with a shallow bow, blinking his eyes deliberately to clear his view and hold her gaze.
Despite the sad and tense beginnings of his meeting with Styrmsthal the night before, they had ended up running fast from sleep with wine and revelry, as they always seemed to when meeting in the vicinity of alcohol. They had, of course, had to remove themselves from the Bismarck, but the Drowning Wench was built for just such raucousness. Had the Mizzenmast not been connected to the Wench, Lolo may never have found his way back to his room.
And so it was, in light of the contents of Styrmsthal's report and the cloudiness of Lolotaru's mind, that he stopped the descent of his foot just shy of Joz's kinked tail--Funny, never noticed that before--and allowed a very obvious species of shock to appear on his face before slowly and clumsily composing himself.
"Ah...er...good morn--uh...good afternoon, Miss Joz," he said with a shallow bow, blinking his eyes deliberately to clear his view and hold her gaze.
