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"I led us into that ambush at Devil's Cove," Elara confessed. "I let my greed for Spanish gold override the caution the Code demands. Silas was wrong to strike me, but he was right to question me."

Silas’s eyes widened.

The silence stretched like a taut rope. Then, one by one, the pirates raised their hands. Not for Silas. Not against Elara. They voted on the open question. pirates law

"That's where you're wrong, Silas," she said, her voice as cold as the deep ocean. "We are bound by a higher law. The only one that matters out here. The Pirate Code." "I led us into that ambush at Devil's Cove," Elara confessed

A murmur ran through the crew. Every man aboard had signed the Sea Witch’s articles—a stained, bullet-pocked parchment nailed to the mainmast. It wasn't a law of mercy or justice. It was a law of survival. The silence stretched like a taut rope

She stepped down from the quarterdeck and stood beside Silas. Then, to the shock of everyone, she unbuckled her sword belt and laid her weapons at Peg's feet.