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Jack looked down to his plate for a few moment and ate in silence. After a few moments though he looked back up to Vanessa and studied her face for a moment. "Temptress she is known to be, my mother is no whore. I believe it would be best if you talked directly to her on the manner though," He said before resuming his silence for a moment. Presently though, he sighed and shook his head. "Come now, this is meant to be a meal shared among friends. Let us not dwell on the wrongings but on the company," Jack said, managing a small smile.

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Jack chuckled and shook his head in disbelief while he looked down at the octopus leg on his plate. He furrowed his brow and "hmmed" under his breath while attempting to lift the long tentacle to his mouth and eat it. It kept slipping off his fork, as he had not speared it on the silver prongs. He then ahhed and stabbed it, getting it into his mouth, although he found his fangs caught up in it annoyingly and it took quick maneuvering of his tongue to free it. He swallowed it soon after and coughed, reaching for his rum bottle to wash down the rest.

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Jack rolled his eyes and shifted his weight on his chair, catching the knife with his hand.

Later, out on deck, Jack looked out at the now lit shore and the city beyond that, waiting for Tessa. His mother stood silently next to him, looking back to Adeska frequently, the girl illuminated by the moonlight as she looked off the back of the ship, watching the horizon with a curious gleam in her eyes. The girl herself was stunning, as beautiful as her mother, and she had a mystical feel around her. Powerful as well, in nature.

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Jack sighed. "I suppose so," He said wearily before smiling and stepping to in front of Tessa. He looped his arms around her, caressing her waist softly as he kissed the corner of her mouth. He grinned, feeling her beating heart before his still one and grazed his lips along her chin, until his mother his his shoulder with her hand, a stern glance on her face.

"We have something to do," She reminded him, and he looked up at the heavens before diving into the water, while Calypso sighed and drew a bridge of ice to the shore. "Perhaps the ocean water will sober him a bit," She muttered under her breath before stepping out onto the bridge and heading to land. She stepped upon it and a great wind knocked Jack over, thoroughly drying him. The pirate glared at her as he brushed himself off, sand sliding down his coat.

"I'll have sand in this coat for years," He muttered.

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Humming, Jack led Calypso and Tessa through the streets of the lower court, having to stop and avoid a brawl or a wench entertaining the attention of a pirate. He shook his head and took a drink of his rum, running a hand through his untidy hair before stopping at the gate to the mid court.

"I forgot my hat," He said and Calypso rolled her eyes.

"You aren't getting it," She said, guesturing to the road to keep moving. Jack looked back wistfully before shaking his head and moving on, Calypso moving to the lead, Jack trotting to catch up with her.

"You know, that hat could be a useful persuasion tool," Jack said to his mother and she laughed out of the outrageousness of the statement, before falling into silent thought while Jack resumed his humming.

"Who goes there?" They were asked upon entering the actual Court...castle it could be called. A rounded man with a moustache came over and Jack nudged his mother. "I could have flourished my hat in respect, but I don't have it now do I?" He asked, causing Calypso to roll her eyes again as Jack bowed.

"Jack Cortez and company," He said, and the man took a sharp intake of air.

"I thought you were dead!" He said and Jack looked over to Tessa, a glimmer of pride in his eyes.

"I seem to be a legend," He remarked with a wink before turning to the man who had grabbed his arm and pulled him along to the Meeting Room.

A long table dominated the room, 7 high backed chairs sat around it with a map at each chair. In each was a pirate lord or lordress (there was only one at the time, a tall woman with dark hair and olive toned skin) save for the one at the end of the large table. Jack looked towards this one curiously before his eyes fell on another man with a flash of fright in his eyes. The vampire, for the man clearly was one, glared at Jack with dark crimson eyes, his dark brown hair bearing gold beads braided into it and feathers laced into its strands. The man's skin tone was rather like Jack's, a shade lighter, and his fingers drummed on the table. Jack swallowed uncomfortably and loosened his neckcloth. Calypso was looking around calmly, but her eyes seemed to be searching.

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"So, you seem to be alive," The vampire remarked, and a ripple of unease went through Jack. He nodded and smiled weakly. "And the Duchess is yours again?"

"Hush Felix, you have no right to challenge him for his ship...yet," The woman said, shooting a sharp glance at the vampire. She looked over Jack with her eyebrows raised. A brush of her hair aside revealed pointed ears.

Among the elf and vampire, there was a Serpiente, a Elementalist, a Were-wolf, and a human. (he seemed to be most confused and the most nervous, Felix's frequent glances at him causing him to fidgit) Footsteps heavily sounded beyond the chair that was empty and the Pirates looked to see who it was. Someone stepped into view and Calypso blinked a great many times before her chin-line hardened, but her gaze softened. The man who stepped out had dark eyes, not revealing his race, and Calypso became confused.

"J-James?" She asked, her hand flying to her necklace. Jack turned towards her, as did the rest of the courts. "Y-you were dead! This is im-"

"There are those that deal in the spirit realm just as you. I wish I could have found you, but you would not come," James Fieronin said, his eyes searching Calypso's. Calypso looked down, her lip trembling once.

"I thought it was wishful thinking..." She said before the Pirate sat down and she fell silent, knowing that questions would have to wait for later. Her heart ached.

"Now, why have you come?" James asked, looking towards Jack. Jack looked back towards James, confusion in his eyes as he fumbled with his thoughts.

"Oh, yes. The Duchess has had a recent brushin with the Company, and an attack is in the planning stages on their end. Furthermore, the seas have become treacherous, numerous dieties of darkness have found us, and we request aid in the times to come."

"We?" The woman asked, looking to Calypso, then to James, her eyebrow arching as she made the connection, before her gaze fell to Tessa. "What is an elf doing with you Jack? And a woman at that? Where is your Scarlett?" Jack's gaze hardened, but the woman's gaze never strayed from Tessa.

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The woman raised an eyebrow and settled into the back of her chair, her gaze detaching from Tessa. James thought for a moment, his brow furrowing like Jack's would and he looked over the map at his seat idly.

"It will take some thought," He said finally, looking up to Calypso. "Going against the Company is no easy feat," An angry flame sparked in his eyes and Calypso restrained herself from flinging herself across the room at James, wishing to hold him again. Jack looked at her with concern as her heart beat furiously and he nodded at James, knowing full well who he was now.

"Of course," He said, bowing to the court stiffly, shying away from Felix's gaze, before he backed away and left the room. The pirates stood and exited through the back, leaving James and Calypso alone in the same room.

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"Father? I can only assume so," Jack said softly, his eyes looking towards the room they had exited. "Calypso's heart was beating fast enough for it to be ten of him," He added under his breath, his eyes narrowing. He didn't understand, and what is moreso he wished that his father was dead. He wanted nothing to do with him, the thought of which made him shudder and he began to walk again, watching the floor in front of his feet. He stopped again. "There must have been a purpose to it. Otherwise they wouldn't have done it."