captain-flint:

Keeping an eye on us? Making sure you don’t slit my throat out of spite, perhaps. I suppose I chose the right hostage if they’re that concerned about keeping you alive. I suppose so. You know, there was a time not so long ago when you shared their concern. When you saw what I saw. The benefits of being free of British rule. To make the New World something more than just an extension of the old. Is it so unthinkable that that might be again? You were a pirate once. Stranger things have happened.