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Author: Guede Mazaka
Feedback: If you actually think this is worth it…
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: For circe_tigana's 882 Pieces for the Heathen Gods Challenge.
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Heads or tails.
He's lived his life by those terms. Can't do elsewise; though others may fool themselves and claim God or King or Code for their reverence. It all comes down to pure fortune in the end: spin the wheel, roll the dice.
Flip the coin.
It lands, rightways up on the biggest pile of doubloons he's ever had the pleasure of seeing. Not counting, though. The cutlass is through his throat before he gets to the last piece.
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