Mariner's Luck by Kirby Crow

Author:Kirby Crow [Crow, Kirby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
ISBN: 9781603704915
Amazon: 1603704914
Publisher: Torquere Press
Published: 2008-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Days passed, and as Liall's initial fear that Scarlet's wounds would become infected faded, Liall seemed consumed with his commitment to punish Oleksei and the mariner's conspirators. The quartermaster took a vote among the crew, and it was agreed the ones who attacked Scarlet should be whipped. Scarlet gathered there was some dissent over that, 122

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but it was mostly from Liall, who wanted the men branded as well, and also a few of the more vocal mariners who disagreed with the sentence and wanted a much lighter punishment. There was a day when Liall's mood was like a black sky and even to speak to him was risking a cloudburst.

Scarlet found out later that it was because Oleksei and his men claimed that Scarlet had promised to whore for them.

Oleksei asserted that Scarlet had taken their silver but refused them when the time came, so he and his men had only tried to take what they were due. The lie proved to be short-lived, for Liall offered trial by combat to determine the truth, and two of the men recanted. Scarlet supposed they came to their senses and reasoned a whipping was better than death.

Liall would have had Scarlet go up on deck to watch the whipping, but he refused. The atya shook his head at the strangeness of Byzans and went out to watch alone as the mariners were flogged. Scarlet could hear the whip strokes and the outcry anyway, so staying in the cabin did not shield him entirely from what was done. Liall came back pleased and did not understand why the punishment of his would-be rapists had affected Scarlet so.

"If they had succeeded in their crime," Liall informed coldly

"I would have had them castrated. It is well for them that we are at sea, and they are needed to complete our journey."

"You don't understand," Scarlet said in shame. "You and the crew decided their punishment. That's justice, and I agree. But Deva forbids revenge, and I wouldn't be able to watch Oleksei being whipped without feeling happy about it."

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Liall sighed. "I do not comprehend the difference. You have a right to want to see him punished."

"Yes," Scarlet agreed. "And no." He waved his hand and turned away. "I said you wouldn't understand."

Scarlet was wary of leaving the cabin after the whipping, fearing that the crew would want vengeance for their fellows, but Liall was always with him, and oddly, he was treated with more respect. Not surprisingly, one of the three who were flogged was the fellow who had put the coin down Scarlet's shirt.

When Scarlet pointed that out, Liall went stony-faced and quiet and vanished for an hour. When he returned, he looked grimly satisfied and would answer no questions. Liall also treated him with more respect and not so much like an unruly child, perhaps because he saw how much the mariners were already bruised and marked before they were flogged.

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