This was the burden of the Turner legacy. When he had thrust his sword into the heart of Davy Jones, he had not just won a ship; he had accepted a curse. One day ashore, ten years at sea. It was a bargain made in blood and love, a promise to Elizabeth.
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Will looked out at the grey waters. A ship had sunk three leagues starboard. A naval vessel. There would be sailors there who did not know they were dead.
"Am I... am I dead, sir?" the boy whispered, looking up at the barnacle-encrusted face of the Captain. This was the burden of the Turner legacy
He stood at the helm of the Flying Dutchman , his boots fused in place, barnacles and coral acting as the shackles of his office. Unlike his predecessor, the fearsome Davy Jones, Will did not look like a monster. He looked like a memory. Where Jones was a tangle of tentacles and wrath, Will was sculpted stone and deep-sea kelp. His heart, removed and beating in the Dead Man’s Chest, was the only thing that felt hot; everything else was the cold, bracing chill of the abyss.
"A ship's on the horizon," Bill replied, his eyes fixed on the spyglass in his hand. "The Interceptor, I think. And she's flying the Jolly Roger." It was a bargain made in blood and
"Make for the horizon," Will Turner ordered. "We have work to do."
"Will it hurt?" the boy asked.