There must be easier ways to pass the time than this, but Crozier isn't interested.
Like a wolf, Hickey senses Crozier's weakness; like a wolf, he descends on him. Like a wolf, he can hardly do anything else.
Crozier's past has come back to haunt him before, but not quite like this.
Scenes from the private affairs of one Cornelius Hickey.
Crozier experiences some uncharitable thoughts in light of one particular shortcoming.
The caulker's mate on Terror is pressed into service for a more personal problem of its Captain's.
Hickey shows Crozier something new.
The captain sees something in him, and he doesn't like it.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
Hickey and Crozier are soulmates, and it's the worst thing ever.
There are worse things than being lashed.