Nora Raven in At World's End

Loss

Pintel and Ragetti were sitting at the bow of the Pearl, night fishing. Suddenly, Ragetti jumped, dropping his fishing line into the water, in fright. Looking down, they saw ghost souls floating in the water.

Pintel looked. "Eerie. That's down right macabre-y!"

Ragetti smiled. "I wonder what would happen if we dropped a cannonball on one of 'em."

Pintel and Ragetti carried cannonballs across the deck, giggling as they go. They stopped short, once they saw me and Tia gazing at the lost souls. We turned around, glaring at them.

I drew my sword and pointed it at them. "Do it and I will send you with them myself."

"Be disrespectful, it would." Pintel cautioned.

"Indeed." I glared.

The nerve of those imbeciles! No value for life at all, yet if it was theirs, there would be.

I gazed at Tia, as she spoke. "They should be in the care of Davy Jones. That was the duty him was charged with by the goddess Calypso. To ferry those who die at sea to the other side. And every ten years, him could come ashore to be with she who love him. Truly! But the man has become a monster."

"So he wasn't always... tentacles?" He asked.

"She just said that!" I snapped, still angry with them.

Tia smiled. "No. Him was a man, once." She had a longing look on her face. I stared at her wondering.

From the way she knows about Davy Jones and how to get here, she couldn't be? Is she Calypso, the Sea Goddess the Brethren Court sealed in human form.

Ragetti looked ahead, as Tia pointed to the boats. " Now it's boats comin'."

Gibbs loaded a gun, but Will stopped him. I glared. "If anyone else tries to harm these poor souls, then I will harm said person who does."

Everyone looked at me cautiously. I growled, climbing to the crows nest. I sat down and thought about my troubled past.

I lost my mother, father I never met, was taken in by the king as a child and set to marry Prince of Spain. At the age of thirteen, I managed to persuade the king to let me live with my uncle and little cousin. From then on I played the role as proper lady at gatherings, but as soon as we were home I was in men's . I was the pirate of no crimes. 

"They're not a threat to us." Will stated. He looked at Tia and asked. "Am I right?

Tia nodded. "We are nothing but ghosts to them."

Barbossa agreed. "It's best just let them be."

I watched, as the ghost figures in boats floated by the Pearl. Then I saw my uncle. I stood there in silence, stunned.

Elizabeth looked at him happily. "It's my father; we've made it back! Father! Father, here, look here!"

Jack stood next to Elizabeth. "Elizabeth... we're not back."

Elizabeth stared at Jack, horrified, and turned back to him. I trembled, my eyes started to fill with tears.

I shouted the same time Elizabeth had. "Uncle!"

"Father!" She yelled.

He saw us and frowned. "Ember! Elizabeth! Are you girls dead?"

We both shook our heads furiously.

He sighed. "I think I am."

Elizabeth's voice trembled. "No, you can't be."

"There was this chest, you see. I saw it. At the time it seemed so important."