To be able to find you quick if you're in trouble, you numpty. Some ports are like 'olidays and some are like the apocalypse on toast. You 'ave to stick together on those ones. And we don't 'ave currency, it's all on the 'ouse - you didn't ask to come 'ere, including the little luxuries is the least we can do.
[She gets up and fetches another round of drinks.]
Whiskey all right? We 'ave a little game, my boyfriend and me - guess the drink from the way someone looks. It's a highly scientific art.
[She takes a swig of her gin; the amused look is back.]
The rabies weren't in a port, that were one of the inmates. Bit of a mad scientist. Stole some stuff from the infirmary and cooked up a brand new disease out of 'is warden's blood - 'ad 'alf the ship infected inside days. Now that were a proper old fashioned bloodbath, that were.
[There is the faintest air of they don't make inmates like that any more in her voice, telling the story.]
no subject
[She gets up and fetches another round of drinks.]
Whiskey all right? We 'ave a little game, my boyfriend and me - guess the drink from the way someone looks. It's a highly scientific art.
[She takes a swig of her gin; the amused look is back.]
The rabies weren't in a port, that were one of the inmates. Bit of a mad scientist. Stole some stuff from the infirmary and cooked up a brand new disease out of 'is warden's blood - 'ad 'alf the ship infected inside days. Now that were a proper old fashioned bloodbath, that were.
[There is the faintest air of they don't make inmates like that any more in her voice, telling the story.]