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Emma Swan is neither especially righteous nor inherently ethical.
She’s got deft fingers, that’s all. Ones that make picking New York City pockets a breeze and ensures her childhood recruitment into the small band of time-traveling thieves employed by Robert Gold is almost entirely reasonable.
The jobs are always simple. Travel through time, find the magical objects of the past, bring them back to the present in order to restore that same present’s fledgling magic, and Emma’s good at it. She’s not trying to save magic. It’s just a fun byproduct. Until one last job in the eighteenth-century Caribbean, at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy, threatens to upset the steady schedule of Emma’s life.
Her instructions are straightforward: Find Killian Jones, find the Unspoken Waters, get back home. Only the longer Emma stays in the past, the more convoluted it all becomes, and for the first time, the job isn’t easy. Because this isn’t the first time she’s met Killian Jones.