why he’s a pirate;
How is this for a motive?
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“Jackie, ye’ve changed so”
“Aye, a year on the big ship. Marietta, I saw places- I’ve seen Venice, and Madagascar, and China, love! I’ve killed a man, I’ve laid by a store of gold. I tried the London shipmasters, I did- they looked at me as if I were scum, because of my name, my father. They call him a pirate. Well then, pirate’s the name I’ll take too. I’ll sail under him, until I’ve the means to build my own ship- ”
“Ye killed? Jackie, more than the man today?”
“Yes, lovie. He wanted to kill us, you know.”
“That man did- but the man before?” Marietta demanded.
“There were a lot of them.”Jack said and closed his eyes. “It was a privateer- Marietta, she was flying an English flag. Our own countrymen attacked us.”
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