But there's no ship sailing

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Gen | for SilverWolf96 | 100 words | 2022-12-21 | the lamb | AO3

Minochi | Cole | Minoth & Adel Orudou | Addam Origo & Adel Orudou | Addam Origo's Wife

Minochi | Cole | Minoth, Adel Orudou | Addam Origo, Adel Orudou | Addam Origo's Wife

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel


It feels like a chorus line, in that slightly-sweaty entirely-traumatic absolution-with-a-side-of flash-in-the-pan awkwardness way that you can only find your way into if you know for sure you've actually got a bed to sleep in that night (the bell-bottom blues of costume shucking'll follow him, too) - or rather, not sleep, because the bowing has the interesting side effect of scrambling all your brains.

Together, side by side, in front of the manor, all but armslaced in preparation for a grateful group sigh, Minoth reckons with his odd choice of keepers, and they with their far, far odder choice of kept.