Thank you! And sure! 

For your first question – I think Billy maybe thought that someone would be sent to find the gold, because he doesn’t know it’s been retrieved – that happened before he washed ashore and woke up, so he’s at a bit of a disadvantage, if anything. He’s paranoid as hell though (and so would anyone be when everyone turned on them en masse on the word of one man the way they did on Billy). Madi and Flint have no way of knowing that Billy survived – the last Flint saw of Billy, he was plunging into the sea from a rather large distance, and for all he knows he either drowned or was shot (in fact, it’s very, very likely). So Madi and Flint have marooned Silver on what they believe is a deserted island. It’s not a death sentence – it’s them putting him in a place where he can’t come back to haunt them and where he has a chance to think over what he’s done, with some small chance of signalling a passing ship to get out of there. They could have killed him outright. They could have handed him over to some place like Oglethorpe’s plantation, but they’re trying to mete out justice without either killing him or doing something absolutely morally abhorrent, and I do believe this qualifies. It’s a lot better than what he planned to do to either of them, in my opinion. 

As far as my position on the war goes – it’s like this, Anon. I think the Maroons had the right to make their own choices without a white man interfering by taking away both the money to do what they wanted and the general they needed to win a conflict of the magnitude they proposed. They might, given the chance, have signed the treaty themselves. Historically, it happened, although several decades on. They might have elected to continue fighting, though, and that too would have been their choice, made with their eyes wide open to the risks it posed. As far as this fic goes – Madi’s people saw the chance to have their freedom guaranteed, their sovereignty respected, and they took it, quite understandably, but this time they get to actually examine their options and make a choice instead of having one forced upon them, and that’s everything that they had stolen from them in canon. 

Jack, Anne, and Max in this fic get pretty much exactly what they get in canon. Featherstone is to be the new governor. Max runs the whole show, and Jack and Anne get to sail the way they want and need to and come home to Nassau when they’re done. Rogers is still out of the picture, just I like to think that in this one, he’s been dumped off in an English port with a chance to run as far as he can where in canon he gets taken to debtor’s prison. I’m not anti-mercy, I’m just anti-forgiving people who aren’t sorry for what they did and show every sign they’ve learned nothing from it.