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Lewis Capaldi | Someone You Loved

We are hard by Margaret Atwood

I started wondering. If you’re Whitehall and you have it in your head you wanna finally retake Nassau from the pirates, isn’t the opening move in that attack the introduction of a universal pardon? You been putting this together all this time and never saying anything to me about it? Well, you and I haven’t exactly been on the warmest of terms lately.

When you were sinking to the bottom of the sea, who do you imagine it was who dragged you onto that beach?

I think that you are the best of us.

Nassau

I worry that we have made a terrible mistake. I see what you see in them Silver and Flint. But their relationship is so v o l a t i l e and we have put our lives in their hands. Those men rose to their stations because they are peerless when it comes to shaping the world to their will, in creating a narrative and wielding it to compel men's hearts and minds. But the most compelling story requires a villain at its center. And if either Captain Flint or Mr. Silver sees the other as a villain or worse us as that then all is lost. They are of great v a l u e to us, but they must be managed by us to avoid that outcome.

.....yes