



BLACK SAILS (2014-2017)
XI. || XXXVI.I’ve spent my life trying to build something here. It’s all I have. I can’t just walk away. It is not all you have!
BLACK SAILS ♦ VI.You know, when I first met you, I pegged you for an easy mark. But now, between you and Flint, I’m not certain who I should be more afraid of. I saw you earlier. After you lifted the ban. You were angry. Not just about Max. Those men out there, they made you admit you were wrong. They made you feel weak.
I suppose I should have seen this, that somehow your grip on this place would be too strong to be denied by a king, his laws, or even your death.
I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.
Eleanor: Before this war began, before everyone’s roles changed, your father mistrusted Flint as much as anyone in Nassau did. I assume you were in some contact with him all that time. I’m surprised that his feelings didn’t influence you.
Madi: You were my sister. There is very little that I remember from when I was young, but I remember this. You were older. You were beautiful. I revered you. When you were told that my mother and I were dead, I have to believe that it affected you. You had just lost your mother. But if thing were as I remember, my mother and I were your family, too. And yet, through all the yeas thereafter that my father cared for you, counseled you, labored for you, he never told you that we were alive. It would have been so easy to lessen your suffering by divulging the secret. And yet, he never did. Have you yet asked yourself why that is?