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Prelude, suite No. 1, L’Arlésienne (Bizet)
Joline (thoughts)
September 19, early evening
Officers don’t work in a kitchen. Evidently. They should have asked my cooks to help although I’m not sure the bridge crew would be able to deal with them. I know they had to handle Masters’ paintings, statues and figurines with care in spite of their wrapping, anxious not to break a finger or worse, a phallus ! With that part missing, the item would be worth hundreds of thousands of euros less… Those handsome uniformed crew members who probably use cosmetics more expensive than mine must hesitate before every move ! Not like Thomas, the young sailor on the Saint-Amour. That one, if he asks me for work one day, I would hire him. As soon as he had understood the power had passed to my hands—I was
