Sounds just like Barbossa, and it's true that we never learn exactly how much time passes between the attack on Port Royal and the Pearl's arrival at Isla de Muerta.
You're almost always my first commenter! Thank you so much. I know Gibbs says the mutiny happened 3 days out from Tortuga, and Tortuga is at least 3 days by sail out from Jamaica, so I figure the trip had to be over a week.
Wonderfully horrible. I'm glad you liked the effect. I thought that adjective "dry" would emphasize how empty that feast would be for him, and I hoped by putting that line between the description of the food and of Elizabeth that it would hint that she might be on the menu for dessert. :P
Barbossa the complete villain of CotBP is always such fun to write.
I'd always assumed that the Pearl's crew stole the food during their raid on Port Royal, on the assumption they'd soon acquire the final coin & break their curse. And wouldn't they be wanting to slake their appetites then!
Thank you for your comments. Yes, there are a number of different ways that food could have arrived on board the ship. What is true in all cases is that desire to slake their appetites as you say. Elizabeth was lucky her blood didn't work!
Aye, and luckier still that William and Jack had come after her. If they hadn't shown up when they did, the pirates might've killed her in that cave from sheer frustration.
I love when a fic fills places in the plot. Perfect last line. Heh, would be horrible, to lift the curse and then to find out the Cook's skill got rusty.
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Barbossa licks his lips with a dry tongue.
Wonderfully horrible.
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Wonderfully horrible.
I'm glad you liked the effect. I thought that adjective "dry" would emphasize how empty that feast would be for him, and I hoped by putting that line between the description of the food and of Elizabeth that it would hint that she might be on the menu for dessert. :P
Barbossa the complete villain of CotBP is always such fun to write.
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Do you happen to know the origin of that expression?
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Fine little scene-filler drabble!
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Aye, and luckier still that William and Jack had come after her. If they hadn't shown up when they did, the pirates might've killed her in that cave from sheer frustration.
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Perfect last line. Heh, would be horrible, to lift the curse and then to find out the Cook's skill got rusty.
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Heh, would be horrible, to lift the curse and then to find out the Cook's skill got rusty.
This made me laugh.
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Oh, and your disclaimers are as awesome as ever!
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