Thank you so much! Your flailing in a circle made me flail in a circle when I first read this comment.

When I was working on this I kept going back and forth between your requests and what I was writing, and crossing my fingers that this odd little thing was on target. I was aiming initially for a more ship oriented story, but it didn't really want to go there. I went back and re-read the ships you had down and was relieved beyond belief that 'none' was one of them.

eta: Almost forgot - the version up on AO3 is just a tiny bit longer so I'd encourage you to go read it over there if you haven't already!