Who: ex-Captains Bonney and Barbossa What: Meeting up again Where: Natal, Brazil When: Shortly after Hector's arrival Warnings: Swearing, piratey language.
The narration desires to put one thing straight here and now. Hector was by no means dressed as he did in the 1760s, though he did keep the beard and hair. What could be seen of his clothes evoked the image of your typical biker - a leather jacket and thick jeans, with his feet clad in heavy cowboy boots. His hair was washed and pulled back in a modest ponytail at the nape of his neck, and his beard, still wild and untrimmed, cascaded down to cover a scar around his neck from where a band of deputies in the 1860s tried to hang him. His scar under his right eye still marred his otherwise wrinkled and gaunt face, and he looked like a man that no other person would try to approach unless absolutely necessary, which was probably why he hadn't had very good service at the corner bar that (rightly) claimed it was the oldest bar in Brazil.
Here was the bar that Anne and Hector had first decided on as the place they'd meet, should they ever desire to meet up by choice. In fact, they'd met here at least a dozen times since that first pact, made shortly after Calico Jack had been hung and given over his title as Pirate Lord to his first mate. It was well and away from the islands, far and off from North America, but not so far that neither of them could find their way here, should either meet with a need to see each other. The offer extended, at one point, to Mary Reid. After all, Hector looked after them both as he would his own family.
Anne was family to Barbossa, in his mind. He'd married her once before, and would again, if the chance presented itself. It wasn't that he was enamored with her, he knew he couldn't be. But he was comfortable with her, which was more than he could say for any other woman. Or man for that matter.
He finally got the drink he'd ordered about ten minutes previously and rumbled a snide, "With the speed of service here, I'd be willin' to bet you'll be open another decade, just so's that everyone here'll get their drinks."