The Five Orange Pips: Sea

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Five Orange Pips
Title: Sea
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Had a tough time this week! Just couldn't find an angle I liked. Sorry for the delay!

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The sea is a being above the vagaries of human pettiness. When the sea hungers, it devours. The sea takes what it desires without prejudice and without mercy, guilt, or pride.

When the Lone Star sank and her men drowned in that driving September gale, it was not murder. It was not vengeance. It was only, as ever, the sea.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

The sea did seem to play a large part in this week's story, starting from the book Watson was reading. Dominating yet impersonal.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. There are a lot of water references. In fact, everyone in the story who dies drowns except Openshaw's father.