"Sure am. Ya gonna just swim out till the sharks get ya?"
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Kellach laughed, but his eyes scanned the water around him before he spoke. "I'm...pretty sure I can out-swim the sharks. I'll go out as far as I need to."
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
"Sure. I've done that before - it's not that hard."
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
"Say, a swimmer like you ain't lookin' fer a job, are ya?"
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Rin rejoined the group and watched the chase-turned-conversation, somewhat amused but inwardly embarrassed that her attempts to help had amounted to nothing. Interesting. Handing out jobs left and right. I suppose I wasn't too different, not so long ago. But . . . I was leading a revolution, not freely sailing the high seas.
"And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:7
"I have some...friends I need to get back to, so I'm not really interested in a job. And what's to stop you from taking me prisoner?"
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
Kixig, at the promptings of Rin, rushed out into the water, albeit with some delay, and began to swim with alarming speed towards the stowaway - that is, until he heard the captain offer the swimmer a job. With that, he stopped short of a yard from the fellow and looked over to the captain curiously.
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Waiting for the captain's response, Kellach distanced himself slightly from whoever it was who swam so swiftly next to him. He felt too warm, thanks to anxiety and a waning confidence in his odds.
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
The last minute or so had flown by, and Maahes still wasn't quite sure what had occurred. He knew that someone had left the ship. He also knew that the person was a stowaway. But his mind had been consumed by the thought of returning home, so he wasn't all that focused on what had just happened.
But now both the captain and the stowaway were in the water.
He sighed. How was he supposed to help her out? He couldn't go into the water unless he wanted to feel very uncomfortable. He decided to remain standing where he was instead. He could still hear their conversation, and he didn't have to sacrifice anything either.
"Couldn't you help him?" Maahes loudly asked. His voice hopefully carried across the ocean. "You helped me when you found me clinging to that wreckage a few days ago, and you didn't even know who I was."
"Aye, kid. Plenty of me crew were stowaways. I'm not gonna hurt ya."
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
"My name's Kellach, and I doubt you could hurt me in the first place."
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
"Don't underestimate yer adversaries, Kel," she suggests. "Ya gonna come 'r freeze?"
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Kellach nodded at Kixig, and then faced the captain. "Fine," he said, after a minute of thought. "As long as I don't end up in prison." He started to swim towards shore.
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
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