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Juan climbed out of the submersible Tate called the Deceiver and into what looked like an exact duplicate of the Oregon’sfroawking crew members

All work had stopped All eyes were locked on Juan as Tate led him onto the deck beside the pool

“Don’t tell me they’ve never seen a real captain before,” Juan said

“Everybody here has a personal stake in capturing you,” Tate said, before raising his hands in victory and yelling to the crowd “I proot him!”

A huge cheer went up frooal at the World Cup The clapping and hooting went on for a full minute

“That certainly was a elcome But what’s the personal stake?”

“You’ve made all of their lives miserable in one way or another You’ve killed family members, ruined businesses, sunk ships, or caused them to be exiled from their countries”

“So they’re all criminals,” Juan said “Like you”

“Only because of your actions Many of theht before they could finish the revolution Or, like , and you didn’t like thetime to recruit them, but they’ve been very motivated to carry out this mission”

“Then they’re also deluded Like you Why don’t you just kill et it over with? That’s what you all want, isn’t it?”

“You’re too smart to believe that, old pal,” Tate said “I could have done that already, as you well know”

“Then what do you want?”

“To make you suffer the way you ain to indicate all those around him “The way you made all these people suffer”

Juan took a breath as he thought about that “Torture for torture’s sake isn’t your style Even for someone as amoral as you”