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Mirrored Movement
From a series of stories featuring Elizabeth Swann and Jack Sparrow

by Hereswith

The tale thus far...
1. A Matter of Trust
2. Steps of the Dance
3. Mirrored Movement
4. Reasons to Believe 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
5. Ladies Speaking in Confidence
6. In the Dark Watches of the Night
7. Fair Weather Morning
8. Marchland
9. White Squall (Rated 'R')
10. Halcyon
11. Turnabout 1 - 2 - 3 - Epilogue (Rated 'R')

He kept coming back to that Port Royal house, to its porch, its garden and its resident swan. Months might pass—not years, never that—but he always returned. It had not been a conscious decision, at first, not something he had planned or promised to do. He felt a change in the wind, that was all, a pull like the turn of the tide, and it led him there. But happenstance became habit, over time, he had liked the boy and he liked the sharp-willed lass, the burning of rum notwithstanding, and affection no longer permitted him to leave her behind.

On some occasions, when both the light and his senses were blurred, dark hair wrapped around his fingers seemed to take on a honeyed sheen. It was an illusion he seldom let linger; he slowed his movements instead, waiting until the world righted itself before his eyes. If his touch thereafter was different in any way, the change was subtle enough to go unnoticed.

The Pearl alone knew his secrets. She guarded his whispers and the words he spoke in his sleep. What he told her, and of whom, she soaked up, like the sea, and held safe.

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