Crusader

by kaleidograph

Forced into a life of piracy at 16. Married by 23. Mother at 24. Widow at 25. A former Portuguese socialite learns that to survive, she must be as cutthroat as the pirates who shaped her. Parts of it are written in Portuguese and French. Please enjoy!

1. Chapter 1: Lesser Beings

Chapter 1 – Lesser Beings

Nós somos outcast da sociedade. Talvez é a razão que nós somos a maneira nós somos. Não é algo que nós podemos ajudar. O Piracy é um vice que nós escolhamos não abandonar. Para viver pela borda de uma espada, nós somos julgados poucos seres pelo mundo como nós o sabemos.

We are outcast from society. Maybe it is the reason we are the way we are. It is not something we can help. Piracy is a vice that we choose not to relinquish. For living by the edge of a sword, we are deemed lesser beings by the world as we know it.

I didn't leave my home to change the way the world thinks about pirates. In fact, it is that contempt for our kind that is my impetus. I am fearless. I do not fear persecution or death anymore. I am a pirate. It is a dangerous and deplorable life to lead, but I have been at the mercy of the seas since I was sixteen years old.

I am not afraid. I am Rebecca, plain and simple. I am a lesser being of the Earth, and should lesser beings not have lesser feeling in them? I am not a shell. I may be lesser, but I am stronger than anyone will know.