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The princess of the Sea, the pirate queen, slept a fitful, fevered slumber adrift the ocean blue. Lukewarm waters lapped at her obsidian sides, shivers of gooseflesh running lengths down her spine and skin, brine coating her lips as her cheek laid on the wood plank that kept her above the surface. She whimpered, helpless against the nightmares crafted from the horrors from the night before; her worst fears come to light. Now, she lay unconscious, murmuring, her orbs flickering behind closed lids as she laid across a shore to a foreign land she knew nothing of.
She did not hear a voice calling out to her; only the screams of her crew as they drowned, and of explosions of splintered wood and crackling fire, and the sharp tangs of metal on metal as her lover clashed with their rival pirate lord. Her ears listened to the soft lapping of waves, lulling her deeper into unconsciousness instead of pulling her up up up and awake. The princess groaned, a rough wave of water crashing over her nostrils, filling her airways with salt and brine and the faraway taste of blood still on her lips. That was what ultimately woke her as the water filled her lungs and she jerked her head up, sand and water flying everywhere.
Her eyes widened as she coughed up the salty water, fear and shock shaking through her body. Where had she ended up? What were these lands? Naida finally laid eyes on the stranger after getting her breathing under control. "I...who are you? Where am I?"
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@Dyzzie
