<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/9/93/Sebastian_Bryce.jpg/395px-Sebastian_Bryce.jpg)</div><strong>Bryce</strong><br/><br/>He truly hadn't expected to get that kind of guff from a passenger, but he supposed-- given where she was sitting, and the fact that his Captain was behaving just as badly, well... he could understand why she'd be so bold but that didn't mean that he liked it. He was an Oxford Graduated Doctor of Clockwork and Steam, an Engine Master,--<br/><br/>--at least Dyn addressed him vaguely properly.<br/><br/>They, at least, showed some proper respect.<br/><br/>"If you promise to never again use those honorifics again, I'll let you call me Gears, if you<em>insist</em>," he says, eyes glancing down at the cat.<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 6pt;">"...though why you want to escapes me. 'Bryce' is a perfectly good name."</span><br/><br/>He sighed a little, settling back down into his chair, having not even noticed that he'd risen at some point during his little rant against the Doctor's little nickname spreading. He knew, he just KNEW, that he should have protested that particular nickname a little bit more vehemently. He didn't expect<em>everyone</em>would start using it, though,-- it's enough to earn the Vampire a bit of a glare,-- he doubts that she even looks particularly apologetic to his plight.<br/><br/>"...as for what I'm doing here, rather than in the Engine Room, I will simply note that an Apprentice will be sent to fetch me if my presence is needed. The Journeymen's attention is more than sufficient to tend to the routine matters of keeping the ship from plummeting from the sky in a fiery apocalypse that the primitive locals would no doubt mistake for a shooting star," Bryce says, a bit of mischeif and amusement echoing beyond those soft green eyes as he paints a picture of the deaths of most everyone on the ship. Excepting, likely, only Scarlett and Morag. "I am an Engine-<em>Master</em>, and one of the perks of that is that I have free time to take as I wish.<em>Such as in the company of you fine ladies.</em>Plus, as our Steward noted, we'll be having breakfast soon."