#itscaptainactually

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( @itscaptainactually​. )

THE MAN LOOKED strange even by her standards ( && with where she lived, her standards for strange were  set very high ). she watched him curiously, wondering how he’d ended up in the desolate graveyard. he didn’t seem the type to wander among the dead willingly ( though he did seem a bit drunk to her ).

❛ you seem a bit lost. do you need any help? ❜

[merdeviil-blog]

@itscaptainactually

The blue-tail queens had just ended their business with Jack, receiving the Stoney Eye of Stoned-Eyed Sam and in exchange they’d let him and his friends leave the island unharmed, but if Jack ever returned to Isla Sirena he would have to give the mermaids that which he wanted most. They never specified what that thing was, even if they knew exactly what it was. Marina didn’t think the boy knew what he had really signed up for. If he thought the mermaids wanted the magic sword he was currently seeking, he was surely mistaken.

Regardless, it seemed like a good deal -- afterall why would Jack ever even want to come back to Isla Sirena? Jack may not have known it yet, but his quest for the Sword of Cortes would require the Stoney Eye he’d just given the mermaids, which meant sooner or later he’d have to come back for it. Mermaids were deceptive in that way, yet this mermaid felt the need to warn him for some reason, just how she felt the need to bring Jack to the blue-tails in the first place rather than have her sisters devour him and his crew when they found them. It wasn’t because she was particularly soft-hearted towards the humans-- they had only ever given her a reason to despise them.

No, it wasn’t fondness that coaxed her to protect Jack, but her mermaid’s intuition. Something was different about this young pirate, something was important about him, yet she couldn’t see why just yet. He didn’t fall victim to the Siren’s song like the others did, and in the hundreds of years that Marina had lived she’d never come across someone like that. It made her curious.

Curious enough to want to keep him alive. 

          ❝ Wipe that smirk off your face, human, ❞ she said after safely escorting             him back to the Barnacle. ❝ That kiss was so you wouldn’t drown, and             I can assure you it’ll be the last.                                                              -- -- Next time, you’ll hold your breath. ❞