Immediately after the Bloodbath (pt. 2)

From Wander Sibley's bio:

Ma always laughs about that, not unkindly, and pulls you in for a one-armed side hug if you're in reach. "It's not all climbing the rigging and looking romantic, Derry," she'll tell you for the umpteenth time while you make a show of squirming out of the hug without actually trying too hard to get away. "Gets boring out there between hauls." [...]

("Read a book more often," Dad will say, to which you'll stick out your tongue and sigh at your past self for giving your parents ammunition to tell you to study more. Your grades aren't Nate's, but they're fine, thanks. That was an old novel, amyway, not classwork.)