More story ideas

I had some more ideas about the Raoul-leaves-Christine-in-Sweden story, which I thought was becoming quite promising after I came up with a couple of dramatic twists which took me by surprise as I was telling it. However, it now seems to be rather stalled, and depressingly so (all stories need an end, and I have no real idea what the end of this one is).

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This is the point at which things become a bit hazy.
I've now learnt enough about the 'history of the modern whaling industry' to know that my original concept was all wrong: late 19th-century whalers in Norway were small, fast steamships with harpoon guns that towed their catch back to a 'shore station' to be processed immediately, not big sailing ships with try-works on board that made voyages of several years to fill up their barrels. But the captain still isn't going to want to rescue d'Artois' men if it means venturing up into the ice -- and not if he's currently towing a whale and heading for home before it deteriorates, either. ( Read more... )

I thought maybe if Raoul was travelling along the coast on a steamer (?fishing boat? Presumably he has no money... can he wire for some?) he might at some point find himself looking for a French-speaker to help him, and might learn that an unknown woman was raving in French and be asked to help translate, and discover that it's Christine.
And then what? Even if by some contrivance they're reunited, what happens?