circumnavigatedEyes to starboard, scanning the horizon-- no, that's quite useless.
Neither of us know any nautical words, and of course I can't ask A-through-L. He'll know things like aft, and abeam, and lazyjacks, and very possibly he might know "gene" (Fairyland is very scientifickal) but he will not know "mutant" or "Magneto," or "telepathy" or anything of that kind. I hardly do. I know "Marvel" only in the strictly dictionary sense!
But I've braved stormier seas, and so I will have to lift my sail and go on, won't I.
I should appreciate courageous shipmates, though... one cannot come out of the maelstrom alone. (Not that kind of shipping! Just some fine friends. Heavens.)