
You are Willems, dismissed this morning from Hudig's Macassar trading house for cooking the books, and by nightfall your household turns against you too: Joanna refuses to leave with you now that your authority is gone, and Leonard da Souza bars the gate rather than let you press her. Wandering the harbor after dark, you find Tom Lingard, the captain who once gave you your start, waiting at the end of a jetty with an offer of exile instead of ruin.
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