"You know the penalties for falling asleep—be sure that you impress them upon your watchmate Counterfly, who inclines, I suspect, toward sloth. Perimeter check once every hour, as well as a reading of the tension of the gas within the envelope, corrected, I need scarcely add, for the lower temperatures of the nighttime."
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Of course Lindsay couldn't leave it at "You have the watch, Suckling." He needed an extra breath to be able to get out all of the insults and threats and "scarcely needed" things to add but added anyway because that's simply another way to insult Darby's intelligence.
It's unfair to categorize Counterfly as "slothful" just because he's averse to doing duties on an airship he didn't exactly petition to be a part of. He's only there because the other choice was to be tarred and feathered by a bunch of racist white southerners. I'm sure if you discover what color Counterfly's parachute is, he'll be the epitome of whatever the opposite of sloth is! I think it's "tamarin monkey."
Coincidentally, the color of my parachute is "sloth."
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