"Sorry.." he mumbled, she was probably right. It was his fault, it was dark after all.

How do you fill a gap of years since speaking to a person? That she had changed was obvious; she was no longer that young girl who didn't need to be told twice to come on some adventure. The two of them had grown up together and then apart. Now they were both adults trying to make their own ways in the world.

"What 'ave you been up to? 'ave you been busy as Rose the Pirate Queen?" he asked, recalling a fantastical title used long ago.