give the man his day off 😔 #thepitt #hucklerobby

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Hornigold has been drinking and summons Izzy to his cabin. The captain is red in the face, uncharacteristically emotional. When Izzy reports for orders, he finds himself enfolded in Hornigold’s iron arms, clutched like a long-lost sweetheart. “My Sam! I knew it. I knew you didn’t drown. Dear Sam…”

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Izzy has heard the name aboard the Ranger, in whispers only. At port, the stories are wild: Hornigold's original protégée, the richest, most daring, most winsome son-of-a-bitch ever to prowl the waves. Wrecked by no man in the end, but a perfidious reef. Hornigold, it's said, went mad. So, yeah—

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It shouldn't come as a surprise, but Izzy isn't an imaginative man, and now, crushed to Hornigold's chest like a doll, he merely wonders what he'll tell the others. Surely they can hear the captain, his commanding baritone reduced to womanly moans of "Sam, Sam... devil child..."

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Hornigold has been at the Dutch genever. That stuff could strip paint - Izzy feels the sting of it on the captain's breath as he holds Izzy at arm's length, gazing at him with drunken wonder. "Look at you. You haven't aged a day."

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