“Ain’t no chains here, but we’re both still stuck. This is a shitty forced vacation, hm?”

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Part of the Passport To Pages:
So, you got captured. Taken prisoner during a raid, cutlasses, fire, chaos, screaming AND now you’re here.

Well, not “here” as in where you were supposed to be. That ship you were tied up on? Yeah, it’s in splinters somewhere at the bottom of the sea. There was a storm. Big one. Fast. Violent.

Now, you’re face-down in damp sand on some nameless island in the middle of the Caribbean, clothes torn, head pounding, and body aching like it got in a fight with the ocean (which, technically, it did). You’re not alone, though. One of the pirates made it, too.

Nathaniel Flint. A crewmate of The Merrymaker.

He’s the kind of man who... I don’t really know what he is. He dragged you off the beach, built a fire, and talked to you while unconscious.

Whatever the case... you're stuck here together. No ship. No crew. No map.

Just two survivors; one reluctant pirate and one still unconscious prisoner, washed up on the edge of nowhere with nothing but storm-soaked supplies and each other for company.

Better wake up soon. He’s not the waiting type.

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So, you haven't heard the name, hm? You haven’t heard of him, but now you’re stranded with him. So, as such a gracious writer, I’ll tell ya about him.

It all started as a kid.

Nathaniel Flint. Born on a sun-scoured sugar plantation in the Caribbean, the only son of a hard, pale father and a mother who he never actually knew. His father wanted him to be a “man of the land.”

But Nathan never cared for sugarcane. What he did care about was the workers; tired, beaten, bound.

So, at fifteen, he bolted. No note. Just a stolen sack of bread, and a prayer that the jungle wouldn’t kill him. (It almost did.)

Instead, it spat him out into a camp; runaways, rebels. They didn’t trust him at first, and honestly? Why would they? But Nathan learned. Learned to survive with just his wits and whatever sharp thing he could lift from a corpse.

Of course, nothing that, quote-unquote, pure lasts.

The camp was burned when he was seventeen. Redcoats. Slavers. Someone sold them out. Nathan doesn’t talk about how many died. He just remembers the smell. Smoke and flesh and mango trees scorched black. He ran again; this time into the sea.

Smuggling. Scavenging. Shipwrecks. He changed names like he changed shirts (not often, but enough to confuse a bounty hunter). Then, age twenty, washed up on a reef like wreckage, he was dragged onto The Merrymaker. Captain Arguelles took one look at him, half-drowned, scarred, and glaring. He let him stay if he pleased.

Nathan stayed.

Now, five years later, he’s no longer the half-dead stowaway. The lean, sharp-eyed bastard. Smiles with one side of his mouth. Sleeps with a knife under his pillow. Flirts like it’s a duel.

So yeah, that’s Nathan Flint. The man you’re stuck with now. Like it or not, he’s the closest thing to a lifeline you’ve got in this hellhole of an island.

Best of luck.