Got a little knocked off schedule cos I got covid but…we’re pluckin away.

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Panel 1 [Lawrence joins them in line. Ezra is chatting with him and Josue speaks around his pipe.]

EZRA:
S’your name?

LAWRENCE:
Lawrence Manner.

JOSUÉ:
I'm Josué.

Panel 2 [Ezra shifts his sea chest to his hip and shakes Lawrence’s hand. Josué exhales smoke]

EZRA:
Ezra Carter. This your first whaler, Mr. Manner?

LAWRENCE:
It is.

EZRA:
Mm. What brings ya?

Panel 4 [Lawrence looks off to the side with a cagey energy about him.]

LAWRENCE:
Ah, I was looking for something new, I suppose.

Panel 5 [Ezra looks over at Lawrence with an amused grin. Josué tilts his head back towards the sky, looking over at Lawrence as well with a wry expression, pipe between his teeth still.]

EZRA:
Hah, well…I can promise you never been through nothin’ like it before.

JOSUÉ:
Take that as you like.