"DOWN among the DEAD MEN... LET... THEM... LIE!"

Ray had sufficiently become a bloody terror enough to scare the boarding slaver crewmen off of the Coral Pearl. He was no longer singing, but simply shouting the lyrics at the top of his lungs, striking with each emphatic word. 

"Come back ye bloody barstards, I ain't finished with ye!" He howled to their collective backsides. He stopped and leaned on the mast, catching his breath. [i]What was it that got me so worked up? Oh yeah, that bloody lieutenant singled me out and I had to shoot him in a sword duel.[/i] Ray's mouth curled in renewed anger.[i] He made a fool of me, forcing me to break my unspoken honor. [/i]

Ray suddenly chuckled to himself, and then found himself in the paroxysms of hearty laughter. "By the arse of good King Lendrianos, that's a stupid thing to get pissed over," he said aloud. [i]It wasn't even a real duel; we weren't using fair and matched weapons. Anyway, it got me this beauty.[/i] Ray wiped his new saber off on the shirt of a dead crewman he slew and admired the sword. [i]Perfect balance, razor edge, its not Lendrian steel, but it may just be something better. So why was I so mad?

He did break my rapier. The same weapon I vowed to slay that [b]bitch[/b] with. It was a stupid vow; I made it while drunk, while inflamed with passion and I'll probably never see her again. I hope I never see her again. But I made the vow nonetheless. Now....[/i] Ray sheathed the hilt of his broken blade; the anger started welling inside of him.

Ray scavenged a brace of pistols from a dead crewman and howled across the deck as he started towards the slaver ship. "Honorless curs! I'll flay you alive and tan you hides for sails for making me forsake mine, you scum-sucking slaver filth!" Walking with purpose, he started singing again, this time [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLH9J83sg_I&list=PLpZTLuh7iREZupgeRHo-lS8U-i-iRg96s&index=11]a grim tune[/url].

"There were three ravens sat on a tree,
[i]Down a down, hey, down a down,[/i]
They were as black as they might be.
[i]With a down,[/i]
The one of them said to his mate,
Where shall we our breakfast take?
[i]With a down, derrie, derrie, derrie, down, down.[/i]"