"Best of five, then," he agrees with a nod, then leans back in his chair with his cigarette between his teeth as he thinks up more ideas. Gotta make the last ones count, right?

"I've never actually commanded my own ship, I'm trilingual, and this," he says, pointing both hands to the long scars over his shoulders that aren't actually visible through his winter clothes though Will is surely familiar by now, "Isn't actually from a sea king like I usually tell people, but just from a big fishman."