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Rencontres de Noël:

- Alors, vous préparez le réveillon? demande le vacataire qui m'est affecté au vaccinodrome de Toulouse ce lundi 27 décembre au soir alors que le bourdonnement de cette immense ruche où des centaines de professionnels, parfois bénévoles et souvent jeunes accueillent les candidats au vaccin (qui nous décevra beaucoup par son incapacité à nous protéger tant du Covid que de la transmission du virus…), le bourdonnement donc s'est calmé dans l'attente des doses de Moderna et Pfizer.

- Je suis prêtre et nous sommes, comme vous, mobilisés durant les fêtes alors nous ne préparons pas de Réveillon sauf si nous pouvons en organiser un pour des personnes pauvres ou isolées.

Ainsi hier, jour de Noël, je suis aller prier auprès d'une défunte à la demande de ses enfants avant de rendre une longue visite à une personne en longue maladie qui unit ses souffrances à celles du Christ crucifié.

- Je compris plus tard que mon interlocuteur avait déjà repéré à mon col et ma croix qu'il accueillait un prêtre et que sa question sur le Réveillon n'était qu'un prélude à ce qu'il allait me confier ensuite.

C'est ma troisième visite en ce lieu, toujours à la nuit tombée et l'impeccable organisation permet une belle fluidité du mouvement à travers les huit étapes du processus vaccinal depuis le premier accueil jusqu'à la sortie après les 15 minutes d'observations qui suivent la vaccination proprement dite.

Un autre mérite de cette organisation réside dans l'accueil qui nous est réservé à chaque étape: professionnel et souriant. Avec le charme additionnel des nombreux jeunes gens et jeunes filles mobilisés.

Est-ce un bénéfice additionnel de cette organisation anti-stress ou l'apanage de mes visites en fin de journées qui m'ont permis à chaque fois d'avoir de belles rencontres avec les accueillants heureux de converser avec un prêtre?

- Ce vieux pompier volontaire qui me piqua la première fois, après 21 heure alors qu'il avait une heure de route à faire pour rentrer chez lui à Saint Gaudens.

- Ce jeune professionnel africain, à ma deuxième visite, avec qui nous avons pu parler de son éducation chrétienne au Burundi et de son concitoyen et aumônier, notre ami le P. Jean.

- Et ce soir de Noël, cet homme de ma troisième dose, qui me confiait sa fierté d'être allé à la messe de la nuit de Noël, à Saint-Lizier, en compagnie de ses belles-filles de 10 et 14 ans et du père de ces dernières:

- Cela faisait des années que je n'étais plus allé à la messe.

- Qu'est-ce qui vous y a poussé?

- Je ne sais pas… Mais le plus beau est d'avoir réussi à convaincre mes belles-filles de venir.

- Leu mère y était aussi?

- Non, c'est leur père qui voulait mais elles ne voulaient pas au début. Et c'est moi, le compagnon de leur mère, non pratiquant, qui les ai convaincus de venir voir ce que c'est que la messe.

- Elles n'ont pas fait de catéchisme?

- Non et pourtant, finalement, elles ont voulu absolument venir.

- Et elles étaient contentes à la sortie?

- Oui, et j'espère surtout qu'il va se passer quelque chose pour elles.

- Qu'elle rencontrent Dieu, expérimentent l'amour du Christ?

- Oui, c'est ça.

À la sortie, un pompier volontaire repérant que je suis prêtre me parle de son bonheur d'avoir pris en blablacar pour un long trajet jusqu'à Paris, un prêtre pompier volontaire lui-aussi, le P. Moïse Kaboré, ancien curé de Castanet près Toulouse et ancien curé et pompier à Saint-Céré, dans mon diocèse de Cahors.

3 doses, 4 rencontres chaleureuses qui sont autant de motifs d'action de grâce et de confirmation de cette certitude qui a grandi en moi: ces rencontres d'ici-bas qui sont les vraies richesse de nos vies sont un préludes aux rencontres de là-haut, avec nos frères et sœurs, concitoyens du Ciel.

  

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30 Day photo challenge: Day 23 - Time, how it affects things

After sanding, oiling and polishing the splines give a nice look to a plain old box.

Artificial lighting at night affects the behavior of urban wildlife, according to a recent study published in Nature Scientific Reports, which examined animals in the laboratory and the field. The researchers mapped light levels in the city of Chicago using publicly available images of Earth taken by astronauts from the International Space Station.

 

The study is only one example of the wide variety of scientific research based on images taken by crew members from space using the Crew Earth Observations (CEO) facility.

 

Here, an image of the city of Chicago at night taken by crew aboard the International Space Station. Scientists have used images such as this one in studies demonstrating the effects of artificial light on urban wildlife and research on the proximity of urban greenspaces to residential areas.

 

Image Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center

 

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from the book Sound Affects, by Christian Patterson

Blushing clouds rolling over the wind whipped sands of the Sleeping Bear Dunes at sundown

During a flight out of LAX the morning light off the pacific ocean caught my eye. The island is catalina off california. The light streak from the upper left to the island is an artifact of the double pane plexiglass window. Shot in RAW converted to JPG in CS3. Also adjusted the contrast to compensate for the atmospheric and the plexigalss contrast affects.

BNSF 9132 brings southbound coal through Larkspur, CO on an atypically warm fall morning.

 

For the past several weekends, track work has had the Joint Line bogged down during daylight hours. But on this particular morning, things were moving without impediment. Fortunately for me, all the trains I caught were decked out with ACes!

 

This was a grab shot with the iPhone, more to document the trackside equipment that's being put in at this location and how it would affect the shot from here than anything else. But since it's an ACe, I decided to share!

The affects of COVID-19 on Heritage railway operations in Australia has been damning with several organisations cancelling operations or postponing tours and events until normality returns. The Steamranger Heritage Railway has been out of action since April and has since resumed the popular Cockle Train operations between Goolwa and Victor Harbor in mid June followed by the Southern Encounter service from Mt Barker during August.

 

The return of the Southern Encounter from Victor Harbor to Mt Barker powers away from the township of Goolwa over one of the state's most dangerous level crossings with rarely used 958 on Sunday the 16th of August 2020. The Southern Encounter service providing an opportunity to transfer some of the Cockle Train carriages (Out of sight on the rear) based at Goolwa back to Mt Barker for inspection following a busy June/July period.

 

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The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The sun is currently in a period of low activity, moving toward what's called solar minimum when there are few to no solar eruptions – so these flares were the first large ones observed since April. They are categorized as mid-strength flares, substantially less intense than the most powerful solar flares.

 

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of the events. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.

 

These flares were classified as M-level flares. M-class flares are the category just below the most intense flares, X-class flares. The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 is twice as intense as an M1, an M3 is three times as intense, etc.

 

Of these three flares: The first was an M5.0, which peaked at 10:11 pm EDT on July 22, 2016. The second -- the strongest -- was an M7.6, which peaked at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The final was an M5.5, which peaked 15 minutes later at 1:31 am EDT.

 

To see how this event affected Earth, please visit NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center, the U.S. government's official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.

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Every spring, ring ouzels migrate to the UK from their wintering grounds in southern Europe and North Africa. They typically arrive around March or April, heading for the upland areas of Scotland, northern England, and parts of Wales. These birds prefer remote, rugged landscapes—think heather moorland, rocky slopes, and windswept hillsides. It's in these quiet, high places that they breed and raise their young, staying until late summer or early autumn before returning south for the winter.

 

Their migration is part of a long tradition, one that’s becoming more fragile as habitat changes and climate pressures affect both their breeding and wintering grounds. Still, for many birdwatchers in the UK, the ring ouzel's arrival each year remains a special and somewhat elusive sign of spring.

Rainbow

 

An individual raindrop has a different shape and consistency than a glass prism, but it affects light in a similar way. When white sunlight hits a collection of raindrops at a fairly low angle, you can see the component colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet -- a rainbow. For simplicity's sake, we'll only look at red and violet, the colors of light on the ends of the visible light spectrum.

 

The diagram below shows what happens when the sunlight hits one individual raindrop.

 

When the white light passes from air into the drop of water, the component colors of light slow down to different speeds depending on their frequency. The violet light bends at a relatively sharp angle when it enters the raindrop. At the right-hand side of the drop, some of the light passes back out into the air, and the rest is reflected backward. Some of the reflected light passes out of the left side of the drop, bending as it moves into the air again.

 

In this way, each individual raindrop disperses white sunlight into its component colors. So why do we see wide bands of color, as if different rainy areas were dispersing a different single color? Because we only see one color from each raindrop. You can see how this works in the diagram below.

 

When raindrop A disperses light, only the red light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eyes. The other colored beams exit at a lower angle, so the observer doesn't see them. The sunlight will hit all the surrounding raindrops in the same way, so they will all bounce red light onto the observer.

 

Raindrop B is much lower in the sky, so it doesn't bounce red light to the observer. At its height, the violet light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eye. All the drops surrounding raindrop B bounce light in the same way. The raindrops in between A and B all bounce different colors of light to the observer, so the observer sees the full color spectrum. If you were up above the rain, you would see the rainbow as a full circle, because the light would bounce back from all around you. On the ground, we see the arc of the rainbow that is visible above the horizon.

 

Sometimes you see a double rainbow -- a sharp rainbow with a fainter rainbow on top of it. The fainter rainbow is produced in the same way as the sharper rainbow, but instead of the light reflecting once inside the raindrop, it's reflected twice. As a result of this double reflection, the light exits the raindrop at a different angle, so we see it higher up. If you look carefully, you'll see that the colors in the second rainbow are in the reverse order of the primary rainbow.

 

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When I was informed we'd gone more than two weeks without seeing the sun, I went looking for any patch of color. It was dreary: almost snowing, almost raining, cold, gray, winter solstice. And here was this withered up, frosted over fruit with a death grip on its color.

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Affectation peu mise en valeur et circulant une seule fois par semaine, le QG 857 effectue la desserte des deux derniers clients de la ville de Saint-Jérôme. Ici, la cheffe de train F.D. est descendue de la QGRY 3538 pour changer la position de l’aiguille. Le train pourra donc quitter la subdivision Lachute et s’engager sur l'embranchement Montfort. Une cinquantaine d’années auparavant, cette jonction était utilisée par le CNR et permettait d’atteindre le Lac-Rémi (vers l’Ouest) ou Montréal en passant par la défunte ligne Deux-Montagnes. Le signal en bas à droite est l’un des seuls vestiges de cette activité ferroviaire d’un autre temps.

 

A little-valued assignment and running only once a week, QG train 857 serves the last two customers in the town of Saint-Jérôme. Here, trainmaster F.D. came down from QGRY 3538 to change the position of the switch. The train will now be able to leave the Lachute subdivision and enter the Montfort spur. Around fifty years ago, this junction was used by the CNR and made it possible to reach Lac-Rémi (towards the West) or Montreal via the defunct Deux-Montagnes line. The signal at the bottom right is one of the only vestiges of this railway activity from another time.

Avant d'être affectés au musée, les bâtiments étaient une maison de l'ordre des Ermites de saint Augustin. Dans son emplacement actuel, à l'intérieur des murs de la cité, le couvent des Augustins de Toulouse fut construit à partir de 1310 après l'autorisation du pape Clément V donnée par un rescrit daté du 28 janvier 1310.

 

Le couvent des Augustins devient bien national par décret le 2 novembre 1789. Il est désaffecté puis démembré en 1790 lors de la suppression des ordres monastiques. Il fut transformé en musée après la suppression des ordres religieux à la Révolution française.

 

La saisie des œuvres les plus utiles pour la création d'un « Muséum du Midi de la République » est décidée par le Conseil du département de Haute-Garonne le 12 décembre 1793. Il s'installe aux Augustins et ouvre solennellement ses portes le 27 août 1795, ce qui en fait l'un des plus anciens musées de France, très peu de temps après le Louvre.

Fermé à partir du 31 mai 2019 pour réfection des verrières, le musée devait rouvrir début 2020 mais les travaux sont prolongés jusqu'à début 2025.

Project XII didn't achieve the desired affect. What was meant to be a brain-power enhancer turned out to be quite the opposite; reducing the 'subjects' intelligence to that of an infant and greatly damaging cells, particularly the skin cells giving them an 'off' colour, Project XII proved to be a failure, just like its predecessors.

 

Unfortunately, Project XII never reached the the secure laboratory that was issued to file the chemical away never to be seen again. Instead another smaller laboratory gain possession of Project XII and underestimated its capabilities.

 

The pandemic costed millions of lives, with small pockets of survivors gradually emerging. The source of Project XII must be destroyed. Man must eliminate Project XII before Project XII eliminates man...

 

Made for the Zombie Apocalypse Contest over at the LCN. Whether it's prize-winning material I doubt it, but I was pleased with it and it was nice to build something that isn't war-orientated for a change :)

from the book Sound Affects, by Christian Patterson

Our lives affect to other people's life like a cogwheel turns the other cog. Some of us might be coloured differently than others. Some of us might seem small and almost invisible to others. Some of us are prominent whom everybody recognise.

 

No matter what kind of cogwheels we are, we all "move" other people emotionally, spiritually or physically towards good or bad. We can make her happy with our kind words and our smile or press down by cruel ones.

 

And as prominent ones often move many other cogs, sometimes only one tiny cog is needed to make a difference and move the prominent ones.

 

Let's begin to make at least one person happy everyday and so turn humanity to happy clockwork!

Screen is a lighting affect from an LED.

 

Designed by GlenBricker with some adjustments by me. Decal art created by me. Created and customized by me.

 

I have been commissioned by Brick Fiesta: www.brickfiesta.com/ to make the figures and some cabinets from Ready Player One. For those who don't know, RPO is written by Ernie Cline: www.ernestcline.com/ He has also written Fan Boys and his most recent is a book called Armada.

 

From Wiki:

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction and dystopian novel by Ernest Cline. In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association[1] and won the 2012 Prometheus Award.[2]

 

Can't say much else without giving away a plot twist!

 

I enjoyed the book and really got pulled in. By the way, the audio book is read by Wil Wheaton, does a great job. Not sure I will get to reveal everything here, but I will be writing a BrickJournal article about them and hopefully everything will be at Brick Fiesta this weekend in Austin. If in the area, come check them all out, it will be worth it.

Same house, new location. Santa's House is now closer to the west end of the Americana, across the way from the AMC theaters. How this will affect foot traffic where the trolley goes by, and the people who go to see movies, I won't know until I see it all the day after Thanksgiving.

 

Right now, they haven't yet gotten everything in place. They are a couple of weeks away from putting the finishing touches to it,

Bus : Renault Agora S

Mise en service : 06/1999

Affectation : Patrimoine

Réseau : TransUrbain

 

Le véhicule (60) est désormais sauvegardé par l'association "Bus Parisiens"

Trying some zoom affects. After many attempts I had a handful of good ones. This was done handheld.

 

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I think I have SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) in the Summer....lol

 

I'm loosing the motivation to go shooting at the moment as it seems to be raining most of the time.

 

Another from a while back of Edinburgh after sunset. Much of the glow in the skies came from the city lights. When you get this sort of cloud it can get lit up by the city lights as there was limited sunset, but some glow later on that I captured.

 

Update on the HiTech Pro Ten Stop is that I sent it back as it had a mark within the resin. I was going to get a replacement, but after trying out before I sent it back it gave a wierd colour cast that I couldn't seem to get rid of post processing. When combined with a Lee Grad it became even worse to remove.

 

I was going to do a proper write up but only snapped a few shots before I sent it back and was expecting to get another which I would test properly, but its away now.

 

The cast was somewhere between the warm B&W ten stop and the bluer Lee Big Stopper so initially I thought this was great, but I just couldn't make the colour look natural when processing. In additon it leaked light even though I had got the correct size foam for the HiTech filter holder. The filter is very light weight and and bends slightly in the holder so that didn't help.

 

I'm not sure if it just me as I have seen a good write up fro them. The Canons don't seem to be as good with colour casts as Nikons though as maybe they have a better IR built in filter?

 

I'll just join the queue for the Big Stopper but seen that the production issues should be resolved by Autumn

  

If only excellence would be freed from the clutches of mediocrity in the UK.

 

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Aurora, winding ribbon waves of color.

Most of our citizenry believes that hunger only affects people who are lazy or people who are just looking for a handout, people who don’t want to work, but, sadly, that is not true. Over one-third of our hungry people are innocent children who are members of households that simply cannot provide enough food or proper nutrition. And to think of the elderly suffering from malnutrition is just too hard for most of us. Unlike Third World nations, in our country the problem is not having too little – it is about not caring enough! Write your elected representatives and promote support for the hungry. - Erin Brokovich

Here's how Sods Law affects the bus photographer.

 

You have a route that’s been temporarily converted to double decker.

 

You check the allocation and see that 90% of buses on the route are decker.

 

You find a nice spot and you hurriedly check to see what the next bus is.

 

And……… It's a blooming single decker! One of only two on the whole route!!

 

Which meant I had to fester here for another 20 minutes facing a dreary dark-brick east end council estate.

 

Still, the ENL seems to fit in quite nice here and I've already illustrated one of the deckers before.

 

I have to admit that life aboard Leon's Claw is a lot harder and with more responsibility than I expected... but I love it! Every day I have to make rounds throughout the entire ship and inspect everything and make sure it's all in working order. If one little thing is out of place or whistling wrong or smoking when it shouldn't, it can affect the entire ship and the lives of everyone on board.

Aside from my responsibility inspecting the ship, I also help Damien when he needs it. To be honest he doesn't need that much help. He's very handy and strong! I watched him lift three heavy crates all on his own during our first stop after my joining the crew! They weren't little crates either! I'm pretty sure Damien was amused by my awe ‘cause he kept smirking when I stared and said, "Whoa!"

Having Damien as a bunkmate wasn't all too bad but it took some getting used to. I'd never shared a room, so to speak, with another person. My hammock is directly above Damien's and privacy is a rare treat. I have to use a crate to climb up and let me tell you it is NOT an easy thing to do; especially when you are sore and tired. In fact, I nearly fell several times trying to get in the first time and Damien just stood there looking so fucking amused and told me that if I fell on him while he was sleeping that he'd kill me and make it look like an accident. We both laughed it off but at the same time I don't ever want to find out how serious he is or not.

Before I knew it, it had been nearly three weeks since I'd left home! It took some adjustment but soon I was getting used to my new life. I was an airship engineer! No, it wasn't on one of those big airships I'd dreamed of but this could one day lead to that! I wrote to Papa twice and told him all about the ship and my crew mates and what life was like for me now. Though if I am to be honest, I was starting to feel homesick. I could send Papa letters but would I ever be able to receive any back? Surely there had to be a schedule of planned stops. It meant Papa could send letters ahead for me! I knew the captain would know of them but I didn't want him to think I was regretting my choice to do this.

To be honest, I hadn't seen much of the captain in the past few weeks. When I did see him, he was often busy mapping things out and writing letters and going over ledgers while sipping on a cup of tea. He wasn't hard to find on a small ship but our paths just didn't cross too often.

It was mid afternoon and I'd finished inspecting pipes beneath the mast* when I figured now would be a good time as any to speak with the captain. He usually takes his afternoon tea around this time so I made my way down below deck to the small kitchen area. Sure enough, there he was! Captain Vincent was just finishing up brewing what appeared to be one of his favorites: Earl Grey.

I inhaled deeply and smiled slightly. "Mm, smells good." I watched as the captain glanced over and gave a small, "Mhm." His gaze looked down at his teacup, lifting it gingerly to his nose before taking a deep inhale and sighing contently. He seemed to be in a good mood so I decided to take my chance before he departed. "Sir, I wanted to ask you something." He'd just started to turn when I watched him pause and glance back at me expectantly. "What is it?"

Licking my lips, I explained, "I was wanting to ask if it would be possible to find out ahead of time some of the ports we'll be at. I wanted to let my father know so maybe he could send me letters." I watched as the captain quirked his brow and for a moment, I felt like he could see deep within me, that longing and yearning for home. I was so sure the captain was going to belittle me when instead, he gave a small sigh, then replied, "Come with me." Relief filled me and I began to follow him along towards his quarters. "Thank you!" "You're welcome."

A moment later, he opened the door and let me in before following in after me. "Things don't always go according to plan but we do have a schedule for some of the major stops we'll be taking a few months out," he explained, reaching for a notebook calendar on one of his shelves. He set his teacup down and began to thumb through the notebook until he found what he was looking for. "We'll be stopping in Arturstown in one week. After that..."

And the captain began to show me on his calendar some of the big stops we'd be making and when they were planned. He was stoic, factual in his explanations as always. I took mental notes of where and when some of them were. Fantastic!

"Thank you again, Captain!"

"You're welcome."

I watched him settle in on his chair to finally enjoy his tea. As I turned to leave, something caught my eye. It was a chess set! A very nicely made one, at that. I recognized the brand! My father had a chess set from the same maker! The memories of playing chess with my father made me smile softly. "Can I help you with anything else?" I heard the captain ask behind me. "Oh, no. Sorry, Sir. I was just admiring the box of your chess set. My father has one from the same maker." "Ah, I see." I glanced back at him as he lifted his tea to his lips and began to sip quietly from it. He looked so content just sitting there like that. I gave a small chuckle and a small jerk of my head. "Fancy a game, Captain?" I could tell I surprised him with the offer because he looked up at me and quirked his left brow.

"Are you serious?"

"Why wouldn't I be?"

The captain stared at me for a long moment. "So you know how to play?" "Of course I do." I replied, grinning. Then I added quickly with politeness, "Sir." Perhaps he'd thought someone like me wouldn't know how to play something like that. To be fair, most people of my station live their whole lives working and not having hobbies outside of that. I watched him glance towards the box and I realized that he was actually considering it! Pushing just a touch more, I teased, "Come on. I'll even go easy on you."

The captain gave a snort; an actual snort. Then he responded, "Go easy on me? Kid, I don't think you know who I am."

"Don't tell me. Show me."

"Fine. On your King's head, then."

Standing, the captain motioned for me to move and then reached up for the box, tea secured in his other hand. I thought for a split second I saw a small smirk at the corner of his lips but maybe it was just a trick of the light. We walked across to the cargo hold that also doubled as the living quarters for Damien and me. It didn't take us long to get set up. Sitting on a barrel opposite the captain, I grinned a little. "Your move, Captain."

It became clear within a few minutes that I was not playing against an amateur. Then about fifteen minutes into the game, the captain revealed just how good he was. I was good. I was not THAT good! He seemed to be several steps ahead with an answer to everything I could think of!

"Checkmate."

"How?!" I exclaimed, eyes widened and fighting back incredulous laughter as he checkmated me. I stared, going over all the pieces. Yeah, he...he got me good! I folded my arms over my chest, jaw dropped and just dumbfounded! By chance, right then, I glanced up and suddenly...I felt the wind knocked slightly out of me.

I'm not sure what it was about that one moment, but for a second the way the sunlight filtered through the ceiling and fell upon the captain, it took my breath away. His eye was staring right at me, the sunlight making his sea colored eye look so vibrant and lovely like the shallows in a lagoon. I'd never seen a man look so handsome and beautiful at the same time. His full lips curved ever so slightly into that tiny smirk I thought I'd seen earlier, and he looked so content to be sitting there with his tea and having kicked my ass in the quickest chess game I'd ever played. "Hm." His lips smirked just a touch more as he lifted his tea to his lips and slowly drained the rest of it. Before I could make any sense of what just happened...

BOOM!

"What was that?!" the captain exclaimed, looking around in shock. God, I felt as if my heart jumped into my stomach! And suddenly, the whole ship lurched and the chess set was flying along with several crates nearby! I scrambled to steady myself and stared in horror at the captain who gazed back at me while clutching a barrel. There was a horrible cranking sound that was very obviously slowing down as we heard Damien's scream rise above all of it through the ceiling window. "VINCENT!!! AIDEN!!!! YOU BETTER GET UP HERE QUICK!!!"

  

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Vocabulary:

*Mast: a tall, upright post on a ship that carries the sails

 

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***Please note this is a BOY LOVE (BL/yaoi/gay) series. It is a slow burn and rated PG13!***

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Special thank you to the smexy husbando of a man: Vin Aydin Raven-Mysterious for collaborating with me on this series and co-starring as The Captain!

  

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