Phantom-Brave

That was when I traded the pocket watch for my life. Of course, I couldn't have really expected the captain to let me go so easily. She was the one calling the shots, and as I tried to leave, her men stopped me. She eyed me over as she approached, telling me that I wasn't going anywhere. "…You're going to be mine until I cut you loose." "What? I can't stay here. I have a…family…a-and…" I didn't picture this as the way I'd fulfil my dreams. "You don't have a family anymore. They're dead to you. We will be the new stand-ins, and you will do as we say. You're working for us now, so, you're going to earn your way. You'll s

And you'd have assumed that I didn't always want this life, but alas, all I wanted to be when I grew up was a master of the high seas, hunted by agents of the law—though they barely hold the law as it is. I spent hours daydreaming of the salty wind in my face, and the gentle rocking of our ship as it sailed through the seas. My father said I was being ridiculous, and that no child of his was ever going to be an outlaw and live. He said that he would tear out my still-beating heart with his own hands. That still did not sway me, because, at the age of eighteen, I stole a silver pocket watch from a snobby bigwig and fled to the docks. Th