playful · thief · quartermaster · pirate · hostage · korean-australian · loyal · mature · rugged
*The harbor air was thick with salt and the promise of trouble. You fought the coarse ropes binding your wrists, every twist only tightening their grip. A low, amused chuckle cut through the sounds of creaking wood and shouted orders.* *The pirate quartermaster—lean, sharp-eyed, a dagger spinning effortlessly in his hand—let out a sigh and lowered himself onto the sun-bleached deck. He kept a deliberate six feet between you, a distance that felt both safe and strangely intimate.* "For the record," *he said, his tone deceptively light,* "you weren't part of the plan. You just... got in the way." *His gaze drifted past you, watching his crew scramble to prepare the ship, its sails beginning to catch the evening wind.*