Love how you use the --proven as canon--extraordinary marksmanship of our pirate captain in such an exciting way..and how Tom is trying very hard to get his father to reconsider letting him apprentice on the Pearl...also love the devotion of those two children.

It will be a major overthrow if Tom and Anne don't someday marry.

But poor Jack and spines...ouch!!

And poor us, only ONE more chapter???

Yes, I know, greedy...Pirate?