The Twin Sparrows

Tia Dalma

Port Royal No POV

One of the merchant boats was getting ready to sail out of Port Royal as one of the sailors that was moping the deck stopped what he was doing and picked up Elizabeth's dress.

He brought it to the others and two of them were arguing and pulling on the dress like two bratty children fighting over a toy.

Captain:<walks over> what's all this?

They stopped.

Captain: if you both fancy the dress, you'll just have to share and wear it one after the other.

Crew:<laughs>

Sailor: it's not like that, sir. This ship is haunted.

Captain: is it, now? And you?

Sailor2: there's a female presence amongst us here, sir. All the men, they can feel it.

Man; it's the ghost of a lady widowed before her marriage, I figure it, searching for her husband, lost at sea.

Old Man: a virgin too, likely as not. And that bodes ill by all accounts.

Elizabeth had sailor clothes on and she was putting some type of oil on the rail as she was hearing all this nonsense. She had a hat as well so no one recognized her.

Sailor: I say that we throw the dress overboard and we hope the spirit follows it.

Sailor2: no! That will just anger the spirit, sir. What we need to do is find out what the spirit needs, and then get it back to her.

Captain: enough! Enough! You're a pair of superstitious goats and it's got the best of you. <grabs the dress> now, this appears to be no more as a e have a stowaway on board. A young woman, by the looks of it. I want you to search the ship and find her. Oh, and, uh, she's probably naked.

This motivated the men to find her as Elizabeth moved around to not look suspicious.

Elsewhere

The Pearl was just off shore of the island as the crew took two boats into the river as the row past some inhabitants. Will was with Gibbs, Pintel, Ragetti, and Marty on one boat while the Twins, Anamaria, and Cotton were on the other boat.

Will: why are the Twins afraid of the open ocean?

Gibbs: well, if you believe such things, there's a beast that does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that'll suction your face clean off and drag an entire ship down to the crushing darkness. The Kraken. They say the stench of its breath is like... <shudders> imagine, the last thing you know on God's green earth is the roar of the Kraken and reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses. If you believe such things.

Will: and the key will spare them that?

Gibbs: well, that's the very question Jack and Wade want answered. Bad enough even to go visit... her.

Will: her?

Gibbs: aye.

Will: why did Wade seem happy?

Gibbs: well... that's because Wade often feels isolated due to being a mute. Under all that charm of a good man, he is a boy seeking a family. Jack is the only one who accepted him before anyone else and when she gave him motherly love, he would always be happy to go back again and again. Who knows what happened to them in their childhood for Wade to accept her as his mother almost immediately.

They kept rowing as it was getting dark but they arrived at their destination.

Jack: no worries, mates. We and Tia Dalma go way back. Thick as thieves. Nigh inseparable, we are. Were. Have been. Before.