Blackbeard is afraid. Ever since his awakening in this strange place it is as if the very world he stands on is falling apart. He's done his best - he really has - to ignore it. Blackbeard did not want to get involved with the weird happenings. He'd wanted to just live this new life to the fullest. But, well.

Is it really living if everything will die?

It had been his job, once. To protect people. To hold the gun and take lives to save many in the eyes of the people. Blackbeard knew it wasn't really saving anyone - the commanders had told them to kill so their own could prosper. In reality no one wins those wars.

He takes a deep breath and plunges through the portal.

When his vision stops swimming, Blackbeard has come face-to-face with a chained stranger. Along with many, many others. He ignores the words of the other wolves around him to focus on the chained.

Blackbeard had been the one to abandon his family this time. In some ways he supposes his family were the ones chained down, much alike this stranger. He takes a deep breath.

I will let you out.

And rushes forward to help break the chains.

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