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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom

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But finally, he made it all <strong>the</strong> way to <strong>the</strong> bow and placed his sack<br />

next to Pharaoh Shabako’s.<br />

“<strong>The</strong>re you go,” he said. Sometime in <strong>the</strong> past half hour he’d<br />

begun talking to himself—<strong>the</strong> quiet was getting on his nerves. “Now, to<br />

find a bit <strong>of</strong> shade...”<br />

In <strong>the</strong> end, Jack wound up dragging a few crewmembers,<br />

including Frank Connery, half a foot this way or that, so he’d have room<br />

to lie down. He plopped down onto <strong>the</strong> deck in <strong>the</strong> nice little patch <strong>of</strong><br />

shade cast by <strong>the</strong> capstan, sitting down ra<strong>the</strong>r harder than he’d<br />

originally intended, because he lost his balance on <strong>the</strong> way down.<br />

Carefully, Jack stretched himself out on his side—<br />

—only to find himself looking at a pair <strong>of</strong> large, calloused, and<br />

remarkably filthy male feet, approximately six inches from his nose.<br />

That wouldn’t do, not at all.<br />

Sitting up with a muffled grunt, he maneuvered himself around,<br />

<strong>the</strong>n stretched out <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r way so he was looking at nothing worse<br />

than <strong>the</strong> wood <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> capstan. That was all right.<br />

Jack closed his eyes. Must make this look good, he thought.<br />

Don’t want anyone suspecting I wasn’t really asleep.<br />

He wondered what Amenirdis was doing right now. Was she<br />

thinking <strong>of</strong> him? He remembered <strong>the</strong> way her skin felt, and her scent,<br />

and <strong>the</strong> way she…<br />

“Captain! Captain Sparrow!”<br />

Someone was shaking him frantically and bellowing in his ear.<br />

“Hmm…wuzzat? Hmmmm?” Jack said, opening one eye. It was his lee<br />

helmsman, William Banks, who was shaking him. “Wake up, Captain<br />

Sparrow!”<br />

Jack opened <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r eye. “Take your hands <strong>of</strong>f me, Mr. Banks,”<br />

he snapped. “That’s an order.”<br />

Banks hastily let go, and sat back on his heels. “Captain Sparrow,<br />

thank <strong>the</strong> Lord! I thought everyone was dead!”<br />

Jack sat up. “By Jove!” he said, putting just <strong>the</strong> right amount <strong>of</strong><br />

surprise and dismay into his voice. “What <strong>the</strong> devil happened, Banks?”<br />

“I don’t know, Cap’n!” Banks almost wailed. “I woke up and it<br />

looked like this!”<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r bodies were beginning to stir.

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