【英音朗读】黑帆/贵族小姐姐的海盗日志

节选自Black Sails/《黑帆》

英文原文

Abigail Ashe: 

        Last night was the first of my journey home. Still, my dreams are haunted by the faces of those pirates that first captured me. Now I find myself in the custody of another band of pirates. I’m told they’re different and I will say that so far these men have treated me civilly, even courteously. They’ve even afforded me the tools to keep this journal. And though they will almost certainly destroy these pages before we disembark, eliminating any record of their activities or their identities. Just the act of putting my thoughts to paper has helped me feel myself again. To construct for myself an illusion that I’m still on the Good Fortune nearing the end of a long voyage. Recent events were themselves the nightmare, and that these men are simply sailors tasked with delivering me home. 

        But it is only an illusion, and a fragile one at that. My father’s told me about these men, about their natures, so I know that any appearance of civility from them is but a glimpse of the men they once were. A ghost that shows itself only while the darker things that now govern their souls lay dormant. Though I’m forced to wonder if this illusion is no accident at all, but theatre for my benefit, orchestrated by someone so awful, even monsters such as these have no choice but to dance to the tune he plays for them, which leads me to the one thought I find most frightening and most difficult to dismiss. What happens if that man decides the theatre no longer serves his purposes and he lets the monsters loose?

BGM: A Nation of Thieves

这段桥段是Abigail Ashe在被海盗绑架后，被另外一伙海盗劫持并作为谈判的筹码送往她父亲那里。其父亲Peter Ashe在本剧中是殖民地卡罗莱纳总督。