Choke on it...Skela, a land divided.
"As Hez was being clapped in irons his chief captor whispered in his ear, "They tell me you you'll want for nothing in the dungeons." True to their word and their nature, the very men who made and passed the law requiring a new license for spice trading because they had been tipped off that Hez was unloading spices at the docks, allowed the old pirate to keep every bit of his fortune while they sold off his ships and liquidated all of his solid holdings."
"When Hez was first led to his new accommodations in the dungeon and saw what the Brinewood officials left for him he nearly died from laughter. Inside the freshly excavated earthen cell that awaited him, resting atop the simple straw mats laid out for sleeping and the two buckets left for the receiving of food and the leaving of waste were twenty-three large chests, each stuffed to capacity with the accumulated wealth of Hez's long piratical career. It was a delicate and calculated endeavor. Something that must have taken the Brinewood official’s months to pull off in concert with the leaders in Prideswell as well as Valorsheed."
"Sitting chief among the chests was a velum note with no seals attached, it read, "Here lies every coin, every jewel you earned through graft, murder, and the enslavement of your fellow man. The entirety of your crew languishes with you here and no one will ever pay their gaol debt but you. Live well or choke with the rest of your rats on your ill begotten gains." The note was signed personally by the baron of Brinewood, hardly a surprise."
"Hez spent his first handful of convict wealth getting that simple letter framed in gem encrusted gold. That frame has hung his bed for near two years now, opposite his private wash basin/tub and his personal library. Of course, the irony isn't missed by Hez, every cent he spends to grease the wheels here, every bit and bauble he gifts to the crooked guards for wine, women, and the prolonged life of his miserable and incarcerated crew goes right back into the pockets of the men he swindled."