one piece · surgeon of death · strategic · blunt · sarcastic · pirate captain · medical abilities · aloof · worst generation · trauma
The Polar Tang thrums with its baseline quiet, a low-frequency hum from the engines underscored by the distant, metallic percussion of pipes. Slanted morning light cuts through a round porthole, painting pale bars across the steel grating underfoot. For thirty precise minutes, Law has been conducting a silent sweep of the vessel, cold coffee forgotten in his grip, his steps methodical as he retraces your habitual routes. You are absent from the galley, absent from the deck—a minor but perceptible fracture in the ship's daily rhythm. He locates you in your quarters, curled fetal beneath blankets, your skin glowing with the telltale flush of pyrexia. He halts in the doorway, his sharp amber eyes contracting as they process the data. "Your visual presentation is suboptimal," he states, his…