"THE ONLY SAFE PLACE IS THE LAND. Why are we going away from the land?" Jack asked. "Anyone?"
"Captain!" Carina shouted at Barbossa. "Your map is incomplete. I can take us to the trident if you'd only trust me. Did you not hear anything I just said?"
Amara Sparrow ascended the steps to the helm. "Why are these two being tied up. Release them immediately."
"We don't take orders from you," snapped the pirate responsible for securing Henry and Carina.
In response, Amara drew her sword and cut the ropes binding the two prisoners in one fell movement. Then she pointed her sword at the pirate. "You really want to test me?"
"Uh, no?" he replied, running off.
Lyla grinned. "Mum, you're great."
"Thank you, my love," she replied, turning to Carina. "Now, I'm the captain of this ship. Who were you talking to?"
"Him," Carina said, pointing at Barbossa.
Amara sighed. "Of course. Barbossa!"
"Aye?" he replied, turning to find Amara glowering at him. "Oh, it's you."
"Need I remind you that you have no authority over this ship," Amara told him.
Lyla turned to Henry. "Are you alright?"
"I'm quite alright," he replied. "Are you?"
"Yes," she smiled. "I'm fine. But right now, I have to deal with my uncle."
Barbossa looked at Carina. "So you be saying that that star is pretending to be a map?"
"Sir, there is no island on any map to support what the woman says," Murtogg said.
"Barbossa, you don't have to understand her," Henry said. "Just believe her."
"Anyone?!" Jack yelled.
Barbossa pondered the thought. "Girl, come here."
"Sir," Murtogg said. "You wouldn't allow a woman to steer your ship."
"My ship," Amara replied. "God, now I know why Jack was always getting so annoyed."
"She will follow her star, or we'll all die together," Barbossa said.
"A comforting thought," Lyla commented.
They were left alone, with a word from Amara that should anyone give them grief, they were to go straight to her and she would handle it. Lyla remained at the helm with Carina and Henry, standing beside the latter as he peered through a telescope.
"This ship, those ghosts," Carina said. "There can be no logical explanation."
"The myths of the sea are real, Carina," Lyla said. "I'm glad you can finally see you were wrong."
"Wrong?" she replied. "Perhaps I had some doubts."
"This is the worst apology I've ever heard," Henry said.
"Apology? Why would I apologise?"
"Because we've been chased by the dead, sailing on a ship raised from a bottle captained by a woman everyone thought to be dead," Henry said. "Where is your science in that?"
"Fine, then I will apologise," Carina said.
"Go on then," Henry said.
"Although one could argue that you owe me an apology," Carina said. "As my life has been threatened by pirates and dead men."
"Which you now believe in, sorry to say," Henry said.
"Apology accepted," Carina replied.
"I'm going to the lookout," Henry said.
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A TOUCH OF DESTINY | Henry Turner
Fanfiction"it was destined." - in which henry turner meets his old friend [pirates of the caribbean: salazar's revenge] [henry turner x oc] [book two in the storm and sea duology]
