Belfast rose, polite to the bone even in confusion. “Apologies. I must acquaint myself with this… locale. Would you mind if I inspected the household accounts?”
They bargained: a cup of tea for a guiding current; a patchwork of song for a seam in the dark; a promise to remember names of lost ships. Belfast kept the ledger’s pages tidy, folding a hundred-year-old apology into the margins where the Keeper had once hidden it. The sea-wraiths, annoyed and amused by such ceremony, relented. adventuring with belfast in another world v01 best
“Keeper of calm,” the woman whispered, pressing a charm to Belfast’s palm. “You’ll need this where storms sleep under stone.” Belfast rose, polite to the bone even in confusion
A tactician. The word lodged in her like a pin. Belfast’s training in punctuality and etiquette felt suddenly tactical: arranging silverware into formations, timing tea service to the second. She smiled, small and precise. “Very well. Then we shall be of service.” Would you mind if I inspected the household accounts
