#but I did get the line 'I've placed thy hand around my neck- must I beg thee to squeeze?' stuck in my head last night

[stubbornlightoflife]

HELLO GOOD EVENING HI 🌹🌹

HELLO!!! I'll give you two scraps! they are thematically related :]

“I’d like to say I’d care for thee but I fear I’ve done a poor job of it.” “Thou art helping now,” Ahab says. “I’m merely repairing the damage I’ve just bidden,” he says, “Before. That time we… God there’s been so many times I failed thee.” Ahab is silent. Starbuck busies himself with replacing the impromptu gauze with that retrieved from Ahab’s supply.

“There must be others who love thee.” “Such as thou?” Ahab says it flatly, coolly, as if it is known fact, as simple and true as laws of physics or the word of God himself.