you told me you're never gonna die

"I'll take my chances" "you're still watching my eyes, which is a good way of getting yourself killed" "practice" "no daylight between you and I" and Flint said it all so casually too. He truly and fairly would be considered far crazier of the two if it hadn't been for Silver's hitherto unprecedented achievement(s) in the Great Repression Games of 1715-16 and beyond. That one singular trait managed to propel him to the exosphere, and while I could not bear to take away his laurels, I do think he should get fined for doping. To restore balance and for fun

Flint said out loud to Madi "I know that you and he had been working closely together of late, become friends even" likely being well aware of the nature of their relationship. And then he followed that up with "he is my friend too". He really did actually say that. With the full weight of his history. And Madi knows about said history at this point. He is literally insane. Silver take notes you fucking coward

[video description: a clip from the 2014 National Theatre production of Treasure Island, starring Patsy Ferran as Jim Hawkins and Arthur Darvill as Long John Silver. the clip begins with Long John Silver asking Jim to try his stew, and talking about the difficulties of life at sea. Jim narrates to the audience about distrusting Silver when suddenly a storm hits. lights flash onstage to mimic lightning. Silver rescues Jim from the storm, and Jim’s soliloquy turns awestruck, describing how the storm seemed to end simply by Silver asking it to. Silver then sits and stargazes with Jim, naming all the stars and constellations. lights appear and move overhead in the shapes of each constellation, and Silver teaches Jim how to calculate the ship’s latitude using Polaris (which Jim renamed to the Grandma star). the dialogue is subtitled onscreen. end vd]

as a rule it's always more interesting when two people who know each other outlive a third person that they both loved and then their relationship becomes So Much Weirder and more emotionally fraught, entangled, and charged when that third person dies