



“There was a time in which I could not conceive of how I could ever forgive you. And in this moment, I am you.”
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!
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.
I do not know which is worse: that [Anne] perish fighting for Jack, or that she survive without him. If it is even truly surviving, losing half of herself this way.
There may be ways of severing oneself in that way, sacrificing one part to save the other. But in that moment, I honestly couldn’t find something sharp enough to make the cut.
I truly am sorry. For all of it.