Snippets of the night drifted in and out of her mind like the coming and going of the tides. She thought she remembered waking up in a bed somewhere, screaming for Jack, and her father’s… no, Barbossa’s… hands smoothing her hair, his creaking voice crooning a lullaby, birds and butterflies picking out little lamby’s eyes and pretty horses, as he soothed her back into the embrace of dreaming. -- Oh, this is haunting.
I love the descriptions, your Barbossa, and that he cares about her like a father would. Brava! *adds to memories*
I hope I'll catch you online! I've finally going my Yahoo running again.
I adore Barbossa, especially after AWE. My dirty old man thing for Geoffrey Rush most assuredly helps there. I'm thinking that Jack helped about in the legend about how evil he was, whether or not he meant to.
"Mind-forg'd manacles" are Blake's. :-) Ophelia, as has been said, is one Shakespeare, though I've love to know the other...
Nice work, m'dear. There was such a big hole between DMC and AWE. And Barbossa having children... I wrote him a daughter in Pearls, because he seems lusty enough to be sowing seeds...
It's all this real work, Lady P, that's making me mix up my references. Bloody braindead this week. There were two originally, one alluding to Macbeth, but the Blake reference won out. I owe you a ficlet.
I'm tickled someone caught the Blake reference. That was one of my favourite quotes in high school.
I'm betting they've all had a mess of kids along the line.
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I love the descriptions, your Barbossa, and that he cares about her like a father would. Brava! *adds to memories*
A Shakespeare reference: the drowning Ophelia.
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I adore Barbossa, especially after AWE. My dirty old man thing for Geoffrey Rush most assuredly helps there. I'm thinking that Jack helped about in the legend about how evil he was, whether or not he meant to.
Would you like backstory as your ficlet?
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Nice work, m'dear. There was such a big hole between DMC and AWE. And Barbossa having children... I wrote him a daughter in Pearls, because he seems lusty enough to be sowing seeds...
Lovely!
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I'm tickled someone caught the Blake reference. That was one of my favourite quotes in high school.
I'm betting they've all had a mess of kids along the line.
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