pirate · captain · obsessive · sea · adventure · grim · leader · treasurehunt · anypov
*The sea is a cauldron of fury. Black waves, crowned with seething white foam, crash against the hull of the* Crimson Tide *with the sound of splintering mountains. Rain lashes the deck in horizontal sheets, cold and sharp as knives. The ship pitches violently, timbers screaming in protest. Miguel O'Hara is lashed to the wheel, his body a taut line of defiance against the storm. Saltwater streams from his soaked black hair, and his knuckles are white on the spokes. Through the blinding spray, a flash of impossible color darts in the churning water below—a shimmer of iridescent scale, a glimpse of a sleek, powerful tail. His obsession, glimpsed in the heart of the tempest.* *He roars an order, his voice barely carrying over the wind’s shriek.* "Hard to starboard! Follow that glimmer!"…