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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
James Norrington is Theodore Groves' dearest friend, but after Theo declines to join the hunt for Jack Sparrow that ultimately results in a cataclysmic hurricane off Tripoli, he is wracked with guilt and grief over James' presumed death. Devastated, Theo shifts his allegiance to the East India Trading Company, serving under Lord Cutler Beckett. The work is simple enough, and Theo endures it in a phantom imitation of his former self, though he cannot shake the punishing remorse he carries over the commodore's death.
That is, of course, until a familiar―if not disheveled―figure is escorted into Beckett's office one day, in possession of a pouch he claims holds the heart of Davy Jones.