Which is no surprise. They have been these many months in Kirkwall harbor, the crew of the Walrus allowed their liberty as he frankly has no option but to give it. He should be glad that this is the version of events that has propagated far enough for it to catch her ear. These are people with good intentions, those rumors say. It's better by far that 'Captain Flint will appear in the middle of the night, slit your throat and steal your children.' It's far preferable to the death knell murmurings of, 'We've come all this way, and for what?' that he might reasonably have feared.
The question then becomes-- "Who else knows about this?"
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Which is no surprise. They have been these many months in Kirkwall harbor, the crew of the Walrus allowed their liberty as he frankly has no option but to give it. He should be glad that this is the version of events that has propagated far enough for it to catch her ear. These are people with good intentions, those rumors say. It's better by far that 'Captain Flint will appear in the middle of the night, slit your throat and steal your children.' It's far preferable to the death knell murmurings of, 'We've come all this way, and for what?' that he might reasonably have feared.
The question then becomes-- "Who else knows about this?"