Edward hisses at the sting of her fingers digging into his chest. It's possibly the strangest pain ever inflicted on his body, but he is no stranger to it, so he does not ease back. Some might think that Blackbeard wants to die, the way he leans into the opportunity to do so.

He doesn't know how this person knows so much about Stede Bonnet, how she knows so much about him, but she's pulling every fucking string there is to pull and he's about to fucking explode. He leans into her fingers even more, the sting of them making his eyes water from pain and his teeth grit and grind, but he speaks through them anyway.

"Friends? I've never seen you before in my entire fucking life."