Concerned? Him? Please, he hardly knows the word's meaning.
—wordlessly quips the rise and subsequent fall of his eyebrows as his hand, steady on the boat's tiller, makes some minor adjustment in keeping with the sail's setting so that when next the wind flutters about them, gusts first pulling then pushing, they cut a line through it which is more or less direct. Maker, Waking Sea fishermen must be made of stern stuff.
"We might talk about the weather if you'd prefer. There's plenty of it."
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—wordlessly quips the rise and subsequent fall of his eyebrows as his hand, steady on the boat's tiller, makes some minor adjustment in keeping with the sail's setting so that when next the wind flutters about them, gusts first pulling then pushing, they cut a line through it which is more or less direct. Maker, Waking Sea fishermen must be made of stern stuff.
"We might talk about the weather if you'd prefer. There's plenty of it."