The Gilded Horizon

Previously

…Standing in the narrow passageway outside his hammock, his one good eye fixed on Elias, was Captain ‘Bloody’ Ben. The pirate’s lips curled into a slow, knowing smile, a smile that promised trouble. In his hand, he held a gleaming, wicked-looking cutlass. The brawl in the tavern had not been an accident. The map had not been lost; it had been stolen, and now, it seemed, it had found its way into the hands of a pirate who knew its worth. Elias’s heart hammered against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the night. The adventure he craved had just found him, and it was far more dangerous, and far more real, than he had ever dared to imagine.