er.. yes, I am learning how to sail...
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Unexpected Swim
I wrapped my coat around his sodden shoulders, although adrenaline had me shaking nearly as hard as he was himself, and began to probe the darkening bruise above his temple. But I could not keep both relief and amusement from my voice as I chided him. "Sherlock Holmes! Do you mean to tell me that you have lived your entire life on an island nation – a nation of seafarers, several of whom you have successfully impersonated ashore – and yet you have somehow never learnt to duck when the man at the tiller of a small boat calls out 'Jibe Ho!'?"
I wrapped my coat around his sodden shoulders, although adrenaline had me shaking nearly as hard as he was himself, and began to probe the darkening bruise above his temple. But I could not keep both relief and amusement from my voice as I chided him. "Sherlock Holmes! Do you mean to tell me that you have lived your entire life on an island nation – a nation of seafarers, several of whom you have successfully impersonated ashore – and yet you have somehow never learnt to duck when the man at the tiller of a small boat calls out 'Jibe Ho!'?"