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Ghost scowled "You saw this with your own eyes?"

"I did"

"Absurd Why would anyone aboard the Weyden have such a blade? They’d have to have knoere co, and ere, even before they set sail"

Jack blinked in surprise "You really can’t iine it, can you? It wasn’t one of them, Ghost It was one of you"

In the next roolance toward the galley, unwilling to give away the presence of the wounded sailor He wondered if Ghost would catch his scent but thought that in the alley, Louis and his blood would be lost

Ghost frowned deeply, working it over in his linted in his eyes

"Finn," he growled

"You knew?" Jack asked

Ghost shook his head "No But he’s at the bottom of the pack now, and a desperate fool" He peered at Jack through doubtful, slitted eyes "Why tell me? Maybe Finn means to murder me next Wouldn’t that suit you?"

"Not if it means Finn beco me alive, he doesn’t share it With Finn at the head of the pack, it’d be me salted and stored away for the crew’s supper"

The smile that lifted the corners of Ghost’s lips was the cruelest Jack had ever seen

"On deck, Mr London," Ghost said "With lanced toward the galley, knowing that Louis ive him away If the pirate’s wounds had pained him so much that he could not wait a few minutes, he would have called out then But Louis remained silent, either fearful of the captain … or dead

Jack followed Ghost up onto the deck

Maurilio realley, but the rest of the crew gathered on deck at the captain’s summons Ghost had no weapon other than his inn and Muninn stood nearby, apart fro them warily, fiercely protective of their captain They were thinner than Ghost, lacking his raer, but Jack felt sure they were equally deadly

Not that Ghost needed them This was his pack His ship His crew

"Finn," the captain said, the word full of gri away from him The pirate tried to hide his alarm with a nervous smile He had been keelhauled already, driven to the bottom of the pack, where he would have to bare his throat in supplication not only to Ghost but to even the lowliest autted, there on the deck Their excite back, partially hidden by the mainsail’s boom, and watched as Ghost strode up to Finn and stood eye to eye Hatred and terror warred in Finn’s eyes, but Ghost fixed the sailor in his gaze without expression, i to strike

"Go on," Ghost said, barely a whisper but audible for all to hear "Let’s see it"

Finn raised his chin, attelare "What’s that, Captain?"

"Your knife, Finn The silver blade you’ve got on board rowl, a low ruht in anticipation of the bloodshed to cory glances at Finn

The fear in Finn’s eyes made any real denial impossible But he tried

"Don’t knohat you mean, Captain"

Ghost tapped Finn’s chest with a finger, hard enough to knock him back half a step "The knife you used to kill Johansen The knife you used to murder the first e hirunted

"Captain, I swear--," Finn began

"You were seen, you fool," Ghost said, his tone full of griive hiaze locked on Finn

The lared back, falling silent

Ghost glanced at Huginn and Muninn "Search the forecastle"

The rest of the creaited The ship creaked and the ropes swayed, the wind filled the sails, and they knifed through the water On the southern horizon a fogbank churned as if beckoning them to lose themselves in its white folds Within a handful of inn--his eyes a paler, icier blue than his brother’s--handed the silver blade to Ghost

The captain grinned, his canines sharp and glistening in the sun The pack watched the blade, its silver evidently just as poisonous to their kind as the legends claiet his hands on that blade and secrete it away for theit overboard, and it vanished into the sea

The crew seean to move closer to Finn

"Go on, then," Finn said

Ghost shook his head "Oh, no I won’t make it that easy for you, boy" He leaned toward Finn and bared his throat "Come for me"

Finn blinked "What?"

Ghost sneered at him "You want to clie me Why slink in shadows or kill in secret? You want to kill uts for it, Finn, then try me"

"Captain," Tree said, his voice so deep, Jack could feel it in the deck planks So he could speak, after all "This isn’t how it’s done"

Ghost ignored hiaze in shae to attack the captain directly Ghost had called him a coward, and the truth crushed him where he stood

"Kill him," Vukovich muttered

"Take his throat, Captain," Kelly said, bloodthirsty as ever

Even Ogre had begun to look at the captain strangely Jack saw it happening, the wave of discontent a them This was not how the pack worked It was clear they expected immediate punishment Already down a man thanks to Johansen’s murder, nevertheless they wanted Finn dead

"Captain--," Finn began