PotC drabble: Governor's Duty [Weatherby Swann, general]
Title: Governor's Duty Author: celandineb Fandom: PotC Character: Weatherby Swann Rating: general Length: 100 words Summary: Promotion has its price. Note: For mrowe, who said to surprise her with the character, and gave the prompt "paper".
What no one ever mentioned was that promotion led to an exponential increase in paper.
As a lad he had spent time at his books, but more tramping the hills. Even his time at Cambridge and at Lincoln's Inn had not stopped that.
Now, however, if he could find an hour thrice a week to walk in the garden with Elizabeth… Weatherby Swann sighed. He lifted the sheet from the left hand pile, read it, dipped his pen in the inkwell to sign, and let the glistening ink dry before placing the paper on the neatly squared stack to his right.