Captain H00K and Marina's Drowned World

Rrrr… ye best be listenin’, for the world o’ man, she done drowned

herself in the year o’ 3025. Aye, swallowed whole by a sea not gentle,

nay, but a cruel mistress, she took all lands, all cities, all maps.

Old kingdoms, dead n’ gone, leavin’ naught but driftin’ timber, and the salt in

yer teeth. And here stand I, CAPTAIN H00K, spyin’ the horizon, thinkin’—aye,

thinkin’—“This world… she’s a proper wench.” Beside me stands Marina, a lass as sharp

as a cutlass, aye, and twice as fearless. No words we need, just a nod,

a glare, a promise in the eye. In this drowned world,