The birth certificate of a king who should never have been born.
So let the armadas come. Let the hunters hunt. Pirate B. is already three tides ahead, carving a new rule into her mast:
Pirate B. didn’t want a throne. She didn’t want a pardon. What she wanted sat in a cage at the bottom of the Admiralty’s own dungeon: a pale, sharp-eyed girl they called “the Key.” The only person alive who knew where the real treasure was buried.