WWLXII: Dead Men Do Tell Tales

[Nerwen]

Shiver me timbers, this be a catastrophe, mates! No rum! Half on us'll be in th' horrors come sundown, ye mark me!

...Oh, an' 'tis is a pity about the poor wee wench, too.

She ha' not said much, apart from her a-votin' o' Shark Tooth Shasta.

I reckon she got it on account o' no' havin' the look o' a co-conspirator, in the main. But belike th'agressors be tryin' some lay o' makin' Shark Tooth swing for her, or else he's one on' 'em an' they reckoned she were the spy. Be nay way o' tellin'.


EDIT: repeated word.
EDIT2:spelling.

[Nerwen]

Th' cabin-boy ha' still no explained this remark o' her'n:

Originally Posted by Rikae

I be a' thinkin' fer instance, that even though th' cap'n (or somebody) sez tha we won't learn th' alignment o' the scurvy dog we force to walk the plank each day, there's one man among us who be th' exception to that rule, if yer catch my drift.

I axes her fer a wee explanation, an' she sez:

Originally Posted by Rikae

It's right thar in th' contract, me hearty,ef ye got' th' eyes t' see . Ye just ha' t' think on it apiece.

Arr, Puffy-Shirt, happen me remainin' eye be no up to th' task. (It be main tactless o' ye' to be speakin' o' deadlights to sich a one as I, but I be lettin' that pass on account o' yer tender years.)

[Nerwen]

Be any o' ye scurvy dogs around?

[A Little Green]

I be around, and I be *hiccups* (do ghosts have hiccups?) very disappointed at bein' *hiccups* dead. Th' thing is, I be th' spy, so 'tis kinda crap t' be killed this early.

[Nerwen]

By thunder! It talks!

Er... I mean... I might ha' known ye'd no lie quiet, ye poor wench, wi' yer murderers still unhanged, an' no a drop o' rum in ye fer hours an' hours. I'll warrant ye ha' ne'er been sober this long since ye were weaned.

Yer the spy, sez ye? Arr, but belike ye'd be sayin' that were ye a mutineer or a co-conspirator too.

Who be ye a-spyin' of, then?



EDIT:word choice.

[A Little Green]

Yer the spy, sez ye? Arr, but belike ye'd be sayin' that were ye a mutineer or a co-conspirator too.

Who be ye a-spyin' of, then?

If I were a mutineer I probably wouldn't be dead. It be very true I could claim the same if I were a co-conspirator bu' I wouldn't say it yet, I'd save it fer later, fer a situation where it causes more confusion than now. I was spyin' ye, as it happens, and ye be innocent or a co-conspirator, dunno which.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by A Little Green

If I were a mutineer I probably wouldn't be dead.

'Tis true. I were speakin' more o' general principles.

Originally Posted by A Little Green

be very true I could claim the same if I were a co-conspirator bu' I wouldn't say it yet, I'd save it fer later, fer a situation where it causes more confusion than now.

Aye, but who'd believe ye?

I was spyin' ye, as it happens, and ye be innocent or a co-conspirator, dunno which.

Aye, well, that's right enow.

But did ye no' get to be a spyin' o' any on us Night One?