No, no, no… you've got it all wrong… you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen - it's not gasps and blood and falling about - that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all - now you see him, now you don't that's the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back - an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
[image description: seven Black Sails image edits.
First image: a screenshot of an article headline from The Onion that says, "Things To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came Out" and that has been edited to say, "Published June 24, 1716".
Second image: A quote that says "They hang men for this." above a photo of Miranda.
Third image: A quote that says "Take him. And get the fuck off my beach." above a photo of Teach.
Fourth image: A quote that says "I don't give a shit what goes on in there. fuck Flint. Don't fuck Flint. fuck Billy. Don't fuck Billy." above a photo of Israel Hands.
Fifth image: A quote that says "Come to bed when you're through." above a photo of Jack Rackham.
Sixth image: A quote that says "Had I that instinct, I would resist it with every inch of will I could muster." above a photo of Vane.
Seventh image: A quote that says "You can see how this might be of particular and immediate concern for me." above a photo of Silver.
BLACK SAILS XI.
“You conspire with my father to sabotage our plans. You betray our trust. You cause almost irreparable damage as a result. And when Flint, the most feared captain in all creation, comes to confront you about it, you destroy him. Now I hear in the wind that in his absence you've begun to forge new alliances with his enemies. [...] Yet here you sit, brewing tea as if none of it ever happened. And I'm forced to wonder exactly what it is you hold over Flint that makes everything I've seen possible.”
“You don't know what you've seen.”
“You didn't betray him?”
“I don't believe I did, no. And if he's being honest, neither does he.”