[ See, this is why he loves to tell stories: this, right here. Watching someone get into it, knowing the payoff that's gonna come. And Ellie's a good audience for it, staring wide-eyed at him while he waves his hands around and makes Henry Avery live again for a couple minutes.

He grins back, shrugs. ]

Eh--still working on that part. Turns out Avery and the other pirates he recruited, they really built their own little country. Had townsfolk and everything. And...well, pirates, they're democratic, but some of 'em? Greedy as hell.

So we're still working on the treasure.