"Thomas gave himself to the work on this ship. By the nature of the Kestrel as a research vessel, our tasks are more dangerous." If a certain self-centred Lord obeyed orders, we would have made it clean. "Thomas made himself indispensable to the scientists who worked aboard the Kestrel. He will be missed. He had a family back in Anglia. Two sons with salt water running through their veins, and a daughter who keeps house in place of their mother who died a few years back of a fever. We will ...