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“You have forgotten your purpose – that is no injustice unto me, as it is unto yourself,” Graham responded calmly, unaffected by the fury being spat upon him by the redhaired captain whom he remembered only as another of Hennessey’s promising lieutenants. They both shared a history as self-made officers who benefited under that man’s tutelage – that they flourished under different directions was no cause for judgement between them. 

In truth, that they both stood here now on the soil of Nassau, pirates for all intents and purposes, said as much to their shared history as it did not, if one wished to analyze it more closely. As it was, Graham had too much at stake to afford any further bad blood between himself and the man before him now. 

“Unless the score has changed, and you no longer wish to ascertain Nassau’s stability – in which case, I am afraid we are indeed at odds here, Captain… Flint.”