Wordkeeper
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Ed never thought he would find his wordkeeper. No one alive would dare say the words inscribed on his hip to him. Not at first meeting. And not if they wanted to keep their tongue. But then Izzy comes back with a message from a new guy on the scene, calling himself the Gentleman Pirate. A message that matches his wordmark. And for the first time in so long, Ed feels intrigued. And then Ed feels a whole lot more.
Too bad he has no idea that Stede was too delirious when they met to remember Ed's first words to him.
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- Part 1 of Wordkeeper
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Stede never expected the love of his life to be Blackbeard. He also didn’t expect the love of his life not to be his wordkeeper.
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- Part 2 of Wordkeeper
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“I know!” he shouts. They all freeze, watching him. “I know what I am. I’m weak. Foolish. I’ve never been able to do a single thing right in my life. Everything I touch breaks.” He closes his eyes, pictures Mary and the children, struggling without him. Pictures Nigel and Chauncey’s lifeless, bloody bodies. Pictures Ed, beardless, staring up at him. Giving everything up for him. “I … I can’t undo the things I’ve done,” he says. “But … I can try to make amends. And I can stop things from getting worse.”
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Stede goes home.
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- Part 3 of Wordkeeper
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It’s been two long, long weeks. Two weeks of sitting in a huge bare room, nothing left but a bed and a previously smooth, beautiful table, now pockmarked with knife gouges. Two weeks of throwing the crew at any ship they come across, fighting with vicious, brutal efficiency. Two weeks of drowning in rum and gin and anything he can get his hands on. Two weeks of wondering how long he has to keep doing this before it all just ends.
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After a whirlwind few months together, Ed believes that his wordkeeper has chosen his wife and family over being with him. As he tries to cope with the rejection, he gets more bad news: Stede has died. With that news, he loses all pretense of being able to keep it together.
Stede has made the decision to give up everything in his old life to go home to Ed, the love of his life. Despite his initial concerns about Ed not being his wordkeeper, he's all in. First, he just has to find his way back.
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- Part 4 of Wordkeeper