makeitquick | 4th Dusting

Blackbeard, the most feared and reviled pirate in the world? He killed men at random just because he could. He was steeped in black magics and had very little soul left, by the end. I had no choice, child, but to serve aboard his ship as a common deckhand. That was right before the Malnosso brought me back here.

So there is still magic there, huh... [Magic is something she's also curious and wary about. Mostly because, well, Harth is so interested in it. But that second pare is interesting] But damaged his soul? Magic can do that?

Evil can do that, darling. This man, eh? He had a beautiful, ravishing daughter. And she wanted nothing more than to save that sin-riddled soul of his. To that end, she kidnapped me and pressed me into service. I had information she needed, you see.

[...Evil can destroy a soul. That's now how she's been understanding it, but she slowly nods]

Rough deal for you, Captain.

Not so bad, slayer. I got to keep an eye on her, in the end. She needed both of them.

My fault, really, that she got into the mess in the first place.

You made the woman her father's girl?

Aye, well...I might have had a hand in turning her into what she was, but possibly not in that sense. That is what they believed, though.

[...] Actually Captain, how do you mean save him? If the soul's gone, what's there to save?

Hmmm? I didn't want to save him! He were a rogue pirate, missy. Not to be saved by myself, and none of my business besides. It was his daughter wanted to save him and me wanting to keep herself and myself alive.

Odds were not in our favor. But I never said it were gone; only corrupted. Utterly corrupted.

No, no. Sorry, speech figure. [A beat.] You fig it's worth saving?

No. No, I didn't. I understand you Slayers face evil demons, lass. But to my mind there's nothin' more evil than a human being who chooses that path.

[Hm. She nods to herself. Yeah, she can understand that]

So, unless I'm hearing it wrong, that venture with him - is it not over back home?

No, it's over. Over and done with and OVER. He's dead. The dead don't usually come back, there. And she wants my head now I'll wager.

Oh. [She really needs to work on the conversation retention thing. Urkonn used to scold her for that-]

Sucks. 'Guess even evil family's family.

I...don't think she's evil. Not really. Made of mischief and corrupt and sly and cunning, aye. But not evil. Not Angelica.

That's good. 'Least you weren't helping an evil gal.

And what if I had been, hmmm?

Then... hope it was worth it.

[The problem is, Jack just doesn't know. His blind spot concerning Angelica was shattered years ago. He left her on the island because he knew she would seek revenge on him for letting her father die with a burdened, evil soul. He did such a very good job of corrupting her sweetness years before that now it's almost impossible to see the real girl through all that muddy water.]

Aye. It was---either way.

[...Hah]

Chance you wanna tell me more 'bout his magic?

Have you not heard of voodoo, lass? The black and polluted arts? Spirit possession? Unpleasant, it is, and a most effective form of torture.

Kinda from a world where magic's been dead for two cen. I'm picking up on a late study.

[...] Posess- something like taking someone's... self?

Enslaving the spirit. Trapping it in the body, whilst another power controls said body. Shamanism. Voodoo. Magical manipulation.

...Disgusting. That's just... completely skew. Toy.

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