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scales and measures by ollietheocto
Fandoms: Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom - A. C. Crispin
10 Sep 2026
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Summary
A tail. A war. One shoreline.
He married her when he was twenty and certain the world could be measured. He buried her nine years later with an empty casket and built an empire out of the grief. He never once suspected that the sea had not taken his wife — that the sea was his wife, and that she had been three hours from telling him so when the raid burned the port.
Now the prisoners are singing a song he doesn't recognise, a woman with salt in her hair has given his dead wife's name to the gaoler, and Lord Cutler Beckett is about to learn the difference between holding a thing and keeping it.