The Captain's Forbidden Mate
I watched her settle into the familiar routine of normal work, her fingers tapping across the keys, and some of the tension ease out of her shoulders as she became focused on something that had absolutely nothing to do with elders or ledgers or fifty-year old conspiracies.
I made us both real breakfast this time, actual eggs instead of my usual attempt at them, and for an hour the apartment felt almost like it was home, almost like two college students with normal problems except for the two people caught right in the middle of something that kept expanding the longer we tried to understand the edges of it.
"How's the article coming," I asked, sliding a plate in front of her.
"Better than I