Chapter 91 The Timetable

• Not that any of these men could be classed as short; they were all quite tall and well-muscled, which was easy to see as none of them wore more than a pair of shorts. Maybe they didn't even wear that much when they were at sea and had put on the shorts for her benefit. Another similarity was that they all had beards or were growing them.
• The men had been crowding around her, but Mark said warningly, "The captain," and they suddenly became busy with various tasks again.
• Alfred had come up the companionway from his cabin and walked down the deck towards her. Among these men, he was still very tall; among dwarfs, he would have been a giant.