Brotherhood Bar-Talks

[Gentle]

Gentle prepared himself mentally before entering the bar again. The scene he last vacated was to say the least far from pretty. Gentle's explosive temperament had found him pushed to the edge of corsair high society which on its own bothered him little as he considered his acts in space significant enough to earn credit where it should be due. A tortured upbringing had taught gentle that many of the hardest and greatest lessons came from the biggest mistakes.

Gentle entered the bar and presented his sidearms to the barman. Stripping off his clothes to his waist and dropping the always present thermal explosives pack he approaches a group of corsairs. Feeling eyes bore into his back and face gentle drew a knife across his chest and stomach.

"Hola Hermanos! See that I bleed. See that I am a man. See that I come to you unarmed and prepared to accept my future among you. Understand I am of your blood amigos and that my pride and passion will not be quelled like the blood that flows from my skin. The heart that pumps it is true corsair. I return to you from my latest incursion victorious against the outcasts. I come to you with the scalps of NOVAPG as trophys. I return to you humbled by my own temper senors"

The room became silent in expectation of gentles words.

"Are we not a proud and passionate people?"
"Do we not have the right to settle personal disputes blood to blood?"

"How many of you have judged me before you have flown with me at your side killing the people who would harm you Amigos?"

"Where is Ares? I would speak with him."

Gentle allowed the knife to slip from his hand and the oozing blood from the gaping wound in his chest began to congeal and dry leaving a scar that would remind him of this day. Would Ares accept him this day as a corsair brother he wondered. Would Ares have enough about him to set aside personal differences for the good of corsairs. Gentle stood and awaited his recent adversary and relished one of the rare opportunties he got to forgive and be forgiven.

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The Madness of the Pirate King