Epilouge
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Tortuga later became known as the Blood Islands. It was always shrouded in a deathly cold and impossible fog, and the water and sands were blood red. It became deserted extremely quickly.
Sailors who ventured into those waters never returned. Only one. A man, no one knows what his name was, who is his boyhood saved another man who washed up on the beach on the day Tortuga became cursed. The man he had saved, of course, was dead, But his story lived.
His story told of two eyes, and the stars that related to them. Green and Brown.
The man who returned brought more than just himself. He returned with an old gold plated bullet with A. R. engraved into it. He also returned with the story of a mermaid with moon-light skin and eyes that looked more like the sea than the sea itself. She had saved him, saying only, "Thank you."
And the final thing. . . the most mysterious, perhaps, was the pirate coin medallion that the man returned with. Perfect condition.
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The man who returned stayed in his family's stories forever. He gave the medallion to his wife to wear, and they began a tradition to give it to the next generation's woman.
The day he gave it to his wife, on the smooth back of the coin appeared delicate, small writing engraved into it. It said,
""One with sea-green eyes
One time you shall loose
The one man who holds you
The one man who's blood runs in you.
And your eyes shall turn to storms
Gray and distant.
Until the only one for you lives and accepts you
And until you find the truth about Isabella.
Until you find when you belong.
If twice you loose
Your sea-green eyes
If twice the man is gone
Then placed upon you is a curse
To live forever
But to never really live."
~***~
Tortuga later became known as the Blood Islands. It was always shrouded in a deathly cold and impossible fog, and the water and sands were blood red. It became deserted extremely quickly.
Sailors who ventured into those waters never returned. Only one. A man, no one knows what his name was, who is his boyhood saved another man who washed up on the beach on the day Tortuga became cursed. The man he had saved, of course, was dead, But his story lived.
His story told of two eyes, and the stars that related to them. Green and Brown.
The man who returned brought more than just himself. He returned with an old gold plated bullet with A. R. engraved into it. He also returned with the story of a mermaid with moon-light skin and eyes that looked more like the sea than the sea itself. She had saved him, saying only, "Thank you."
And the final thing. . . the most mysterious, perhaps, was the pirate coin medallion that the man returned with. Perfect condition.
~***~
The man who returned stayed in his family's stories forever. He gave the medallion to his wife to wear, and they began a tradition to give it to the next generation's woman.
The day he gave it to his wife, on the smooth back of the coin appeared delicate, small writing engraved into it. It said,
""One with sea-green eyes
One time you shall loose
The one man who holds you
The one man who's blood runs in you.
And your eyes shall turn to storms
Gray and distant.
Until the only one for you lives and accepts you
And until you find the truth about Isabella.
Until you find when you belong.
If twice you loose
Your sea-green eyes
If twice the man is gone
Then placed upon you is a curse
To live forever
But to never really live."