"You wound me!" Only not really because swooning here means getting far too close to the water and can you imagine leaning back to have a corpse grinning at you? No, that's not what anyone needs. "I hope the damp doesn't bother them then, it would be an inopportune time to get any sort of break in the skin."

She's been listening to the scouts and sneaking glances at reports and things about this place are just disturbing when an infection could lead to so much worse than the usual.

"I think I make my life sound grander than it is, there have been adventures yes but they pale in comparison to a world like this. It isn't to say my world is dull but thief tales are thief tales and there were few grand battles at sea when I went sailing with my father." And I'm a guard and I don't know what I can tell you, she thinks because those are some of the best stories too, the very best being the one where she joined up. It's really a lot like finding herself here actually, maybe that's why her stomach flutters so at the thought of sharing that secret.