[He doesn't really want to accept help, but the addition of even a gentle slope downward is too much when combined with the challenge of the snow. The last thing he needs on top of scurvy and starvation and everything else wrong with him is to fall down and break a leg or something.
So although James refuses to stop, he does occasionally take the offered elbow, if just to briefly steady himself. Slowly but surely they're approaching the town, which looks almost fake in a way, just for the virtue of existing. When was the last time he'd truly seen civilization? It had been years, and this time, he agrees with the assessment. Transcendental is a good word for this.]
England.
[It's the simple answer to the question he'd been asked, and probably obvious from his accent already, but the comment on the uniform--though it's hard to truly call it that, the hat and coat simply being the most striking parts of the ensemble and therefore covering up that the rest is very much lacking--gets a little more elaboration.]
I'm a Commander in Her Majesty's Royal Navy. We were exploring the arctic.
[Though exploring hadn't really been the goal for awhile now, there is some distant sense of irony in going adventuring into the frozen north, and somehow ended up in the frozen... Wherever they are.]
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So although James refuses to stop, he does occasionally take the offered elbow, if just to briefly steady himself. Slowly but surely they're approaching the town, which looks almost fake in a way, just for the virtue of existing. When was the last time he'd truly seen civilization? It had been years, and this time, he agrees with the assessment. Transcendental is a good word for this.]
England.
[It's the simple answer to the question he'd been asked, and probably obvious from his accent already, but the comment on the uniform--though it's hard to truly call it that, the hat and coat simply being the most striking parts of the ensemble and therefore covering up that the rest is very much lacking--gets a little more elaboration.]
I'm a Commander in Her Majesty's Royal Navy. We were exploring the arctic.
[Though exploring hadn't really been the goal for awhile now, there is some distant sense of irony in going adventuring into the frozen north, and somehow ended up in the frozen... Wherever they are.]