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"I don't care much for dem spellcastin' likes, who dance-n-sing just to do what dis 'ere 'ticker'll do. My 'ticker seen me thu fourt'n years a-piratin' dem bloody seas. I binta de far side o' the Gates, and had me share of alien booty on de burning seas of de Betel and de san' cat'marns of de City unner de Moun'n. Haint skeered uh nuthin', 'n I'll fight any who say odderwise, on de 'treet or in de 'Rena. I'm done wid' piratin', cuz de Duel, it pay better. My harim tell me dey like de way de bath go pink after I come home to dem after a wort'y rumble. Over 'alf of dem be the mens I crush in de 'Rena, so't be only proper I bring dem home some o' dat wot dey lost to me in de pas'--pride."