Captain Benjamin had been expecting us when we arrived, having greeted us like soldiers returning home from a war. The crew knelt in the presence of the god of war, bowing their heads with their fists clutched to their chest while their Captain conversed with him. I didn’t particularly care to stick around and decided to sneak into the Captain’s quarters where I collapsed onto the bed and drifted off to sleep after having stripped down to only my shirt, leaving my sword leaned up against the far wall. I hugged the pillow that I buried my face in and breathed in the scent of sweat and lust. That mattress was riddled with traces of past relations but I was too exhausted from the day’s events to care. While I slept, Blue had found me, picking my scattered articles of clothing up off the groun
