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A/N: I know that some of the chapters are ludicrously short but bare with me, please.
Chapter 3. Ragetti
Over the next few weeks, the boy came regularly down to sneak the prisoners food and Pintel wondered how he never was caught. His interest in the boy grew as he found out more about him, talking to him whenever he was put on guard duty (which was quite a lot as no one else was eager for the job, and were quite happy to swap with the lad for a price). The boy's name was Ragetti and he had been a pirate since he was fourteen, a fact that Pintel noted as it revealed that the boy had not been a pirate for very long. After his mother died during birth he had been raised as an orphan by another family, but after a fire when he was only about six years old he was left on the streets to starve. There he flourished as a thief and a pickpocket, learning all the tricks he knew now, (Pintel now realized why he hadn't heard the boy approaching before he was grabbed) before beingenlisted as a cabin boy on The Whirlwind.
"So ye see," Ragetti said, tearing into a hunk of bread, "I'm more o' a thief than a pirate bu' I like th' life, wouldn' change i' fer the world. Th' Cap'n's very good t' me too, giv'n me th' best year o' me life. Would fight fer 'im to th' end. Bu' I sees tha' yeh d'ain' like tha' idea. 'Owever I say ye give 'im a chance. 'E's a fair man an' a goodun too. Puts his crew firs' an' all tha'."
Pintel nodded, thinking. Even if Ragetti didn't think so it was plain to see that he was a pirate at heart. Pintel knew that he was too and that pirates didn't like to be denied freedom. Maybe it was time to request direction under a new captain.