#i need viper lore so i can make sure i'm writing this right

[dreadwinder]

❧ post-endwalker, pre-dawntrail

"He never told me anything about this,"

Ashen snarled, stabbing a knife through the parchments and into the wooden table. He stood up. His tail flicking angrily, he began to pace back and forth. Detailed on the parchments, signed only as "an old crewmate of your father's", was a long letter, telling about a supposed pirate captain's life that his father led many years ago. Several sheets of summed-up stories of The Legendary Pirate Lord Rafael Stark, explaining details of the "Art of the Viper", a handful of sketches of a pair of blades, and a rough nautical chart showing paths to Tural...

"Wait...Tural? He was from TURAL??"

The distressed miqo'te stumbled back to the table, nearly barreling his chair over as he plucked up the knife. He turned, snatching the parchment up, and returning to pacing while poring over the crude handwriting.

"Come to Tural" "I will explain everything there"

Ashen read and re-read the last couple of lines twice, thrice, four times, before letting out a heavy sigh and slumping down on his chair, head in his hands.

"The Legendary Pirate Lord Rafael Stark, huh...?

And you never told me, bastard..."

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