Lord Frakka
Captain Fitzroy was seated behind his desk when the knock came at his cabin door. He uttered the command to enter and the Demeter's first-officer entered and shut the door behind himself.
There was silence for a moment and then Halldor Leifsson spoke: "Lord Frakka is now aboard and wishes to speak with you."
The sole illumination in the Captain's chamber was a brass and crystal lamp filled with whale oil that cast a circular glow over the sun darkened features of the firstmate and turned his red hair to flame. Halldor was a big Icelander a head taller than his captain and he had to stoop to enter the cabin. When so bent the flickering light danced in the man's vivid blue eyes reminding Fitzroy of the brilliant daytime sky he would never see again.
