Alfred could not argue that. Orion might have been twice the size as he was when Alfred had set to sea last winter, but he was still definitely a baby.
"How long d'you think until he can get out of England?" Alfred asked with a pensive look. "Five ought to do it, yeah?" He didn't have the keenest sense of how old children really were when they were three or five or seven, to be fair, since his most recent experience was just interactions with Charity and she had already been seven or eight by the time he'd met her, but five seemed plenty old enough to stay safely out of the way aboard a ship, particularly if Alfred was there to look after him. The mere suggestion would probably shock some people, he imagined, but his time living with the tribe in South America had left Alfred with the impression that young children were a good deal more capable than the English gave them credit for.
"How long d'you think until he can get out of England?" Alfred asked with a pensive look. "Five ought to do it, yeah?" He didn't have the keenest sense of how old children really were when they were three or five or seven, to be fair, since his most recent experience was just interactions with Charity and she had already been seven or eight by the time he'd met her, but five seemed plenty old enough to stay safely out of the way aboard a ship, particularly if Alfred was there to look after him. The mere suggestion would probably shock some people, he imagined, but his time living with the tribe in South America had left Alfred with the impression that young children were a good deal more capable than the English gave them credit for.
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER