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We now check in on Adelaide and Barzillai.
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Panel 1 [Captain comes down into his cabin where Adelaide is curled on the bed in the foreground, holding her hand over her mouth.]
Panel 2 [close up as he presses the back of his hand to her forehead—she looks uncomfortable, eyes closed and strands of hair plastered to her temple.]
BARZILLAI:
How are you feeling?
ADELAIDE:
Worse in the past hour. But it will pass.
Panel 3 [Barzillai sits at the edge of the bed, and Adelaide sits up as well.]
ADELAIDE:
And hopefully soon. I would like to speak to the crew before too long.
Panel 4 [Adelaide is pictured in the foreground, bringing her fingers to her lips to quell a wave a nausea. Barzillai, in the background, looks a bit baffled.]
BARZILLAI:
Why?
Panel 5 [Adelaide looks over at him and explains matter of factly.]
ADELAIDE:
To get to know them. As you said, we’re all together on this ship for likely years. I don’t want to be a stranger.
Panel 2 [close up as he presses the back of his hand to her forehead—she looks uncomfortable, eyes closed and strands of hair plastered to her temple.]
BARZILLAI:
How are you feeling?
ADELAIDE:
Worse in the past hour. But it will pass.
Panel 3 [Barzillai sits at the edge of the bed, and Adelaide sits up as well.]
ADELAIDE:
And hopefully soon. I would like to speak to the crew before too long.
Panel 4 [Adelaide is pictured in the foreground, bringing her fingers to her lips to quell a wave a nausea. Barzillai, in the background, looks a bit baffled.]
BARZILLAI:
Why?
Panel 5 [Adelaide looks over at him and explains matter of factly.]
ADELAIDE:
To get to know them. As you said, we’re all together on this ship for likely years. I don’t want to be a stranger.
Ohhh I love her so much; I don’t know anything about whalers’ wives so this is going to be extra interesting.
Adelaide is definitely more active with the crew than other wives have historically been. But there are historical others still who were even more sociable with the other men. Whaling wives contain multitudes!