"Edward Teach, infamous pirate and captain of…" He had to root through memories, memories that were close to painful but there— "the Queen Anne's Revenge, right? I don't remember too much because of something else going on. My brother told me random things to keep my mind away from what was going on. One did have you with the ends of your beard on fire. And how the ship could blast fire from the front."

His hand was still working that beard though. It felt…coarse. Nothing like his dad's sleek and neatly trimmed goatee."