The song...for years he'd heard the legends of the song. Of a song that was both the anthem of the Brethren Court and its call to battle. He had also heard that never since the first time the Court met had it actually been sung. True, there were two other meetings of the Court, but arrangements were made through more earthly methods. To invoke the song was to invoke fate, and destiny, and the sea. And to decree that the pirates needed to be brethren when such a thing was rarely possible.
Thus for the first time did Gibbs begun to understand just why Barbossa was brought back, why Tia Dalma would do such a thing. Barbossa, the stories went, had a connection to the Court, one he took with him to the grave. And so, if Gibbs understood things correctly, did Jack.
What he didn't understand yet was why Barbossa and Tia saw that such a call to action again was needed. What was going on on the other side of the Americas that the song would be sung?
Lacking an answer - lacking the desire for an answer - Gibbs sought refuge in the bottle and the hammock. But sleep didn't overcome him for some time. And the song echoed in his skull.
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Date: 2007-08-20 02:13 pm (UTC)Thus for the first time did Gibbs begun to understand just why Barbossa was brought back, why Tia Dalma would do such a thing. Barbossa, the stories went, had a connection to the Court, one he took with him to the grave. And so, if Gibbs understood things correctly, did Jack.
What he didn't understand yet was why Barbossa and Tia saw that such a call to action again was needed. What was going on on the other side of the Americas that the song would be sung?
Lacking an answer - lacking the desire for an answer - Gibbs sought refuge in the bottle and the hammock. But sleep didn't overcome him for some time. And the song echoed in his skull.