Hal gets stabbed; Hickey gets invasive.
Fitzjames contends with unparalleled excitations.
Peter lays traps, and is caught in them.
Bodyswap!
If they cannot be vulnerable with one another as brothers, who else will shoulder that weight for them? Who else could survive it? Who else would dare risk their back and their life in the trying?
A scene of traditional seamen's handicrafts, for traditionally handsy (and crafty) seamen.
Caleb tries to put himself in a favorable position for the inevitable. It doesn't work out.
“They'll have to make a few surgical incisions, of course.” With a single finger of each hand, Tsurumi traced two lines, one across each side of Ogata's face, from the corner of his warped jaw to the centre of his cheek. “You'll still look fetching as ever, I'm sure.”
On the one night of their journey that suspends itself in the in-between, not yet Hetao but no longer home, Wang Zhi joins him for dinner.