Beck uses they/them pronouns

In between the *** is more of a flashback. I'm not sure how I feel about it so I'm looking for constructive feedback 

Mary sat down in a chair in the Captain's quarters, with a pirate named Beck in front of her. Beck was one of those people who you might just consider to be awesome. That is, if your idea of awesome was a strong, confident...person. Their dark dreadlocks with hints of purple, framed their equally dark face. Their eyes were tightly squinted in concentration as their mouth moved a million miles a second, but Mary wasn't listening. She was much more concerned with the swords that were being waved by muscular arms from years of climbing, fighting, and general pirate life.

"Mary? Ahoy there! Mary ho?" Mary winced as she felt the flat side of Beck's sword bonk her on the head.

"AH!" Mary shrieked. "What was that for?"

"Pay attention, why don't ye. It'll be dawn before we get through this otherwise and some of us like our sleep." Beck stared pointedly, making Mary blush nervously.

"Sorry..."

"It's ok, don't let it worry ye." Beck threw back their head in a hearty laugh. "Seriously," Mary frowned, "I remember when I was yer age. Eager to get away from it all. Ready to start adventuring. I only would have wished for an opportunity like ye have. Yer one lucky girl, Mary."

"Thanks, Beck. Really, I mean it."

"It's no problem a'tal. Now," they lift their sword over their head twirling elegantly and stopping with the blade merely inches away from poor Mary's neck. "Can we get back to yer lessons?"

Mary nodded vigorously.

"The most important part of being a pirate on the Salty Bitch here is standing up fer yer crew. We don't let anyone treat us poorly. Ye got that?"

"Yes. I mean, Aye!"

"Yer a cute one, Mary." Mary beamed. "Ye best toughen up a bit or ye'll be—"

An enormous crash sounds on the deck above. "What was that?" Mary asks.

"I don't know," Beck replies. They grab Mary's hand leading them up to the deck. "But I'll be damned if ye think I'm not going to find out."

It only took 10 minutes for Mary to go from the comfy, warm ship to being stranded in the middle of the ocean in a dory with a crazed man.

***

"What the hell is going on?" Charlotte stormed her way onto the main deck, peering out into the night. "You girls are better than this!"

"Wasn't us Cap'n," a squat woman replied, that Mary had never seen before. "It was him."

Mary and the rest of the crew follow the pointed finger to a man. A man who was hopping around as though he "had to go".

"Need a bathroom?" Charlotte asked, "because if so you can just hop over the side and go in there."

"Into the ocean?" The man asked. "But I'll drown!" He curled his long hair nervously between his long fingers, his nails catching on he ends causing him to pause and unwind.

"Precisely!" Charlotte announced. "I literally do not have time to deal with the likes of ye. Get off me ship now!"

"Your ship?" The man cackled. "No no, I think you've got it all wrong! And what do you mean by the likes of me?"

"A stowaway ye mangy dog! Now get off me ship before I give ye a good keel hauling!"

Charlotte's strong voice and impressive build carried across the ocean in waves. Mary found herself gulping for air.

"What's wrong, dear? Are ye scared?" Beck asked Mary.

"Yes. I mean Aye," Mary replied. "Don't you worry something is going to happen to Charlotte?" She couldn't take her eyes off the two who now had swords drawn and were circling each other, hurling insults back and forth.

"I wouldn't worry, I'll be going back in now." Beck vanished back below the deck leaving her alone. Prey to the man.

***

And that's how Mary ended up in the middle of the ocean, teeth chattering with nothing more than a man and a box of matches.

"Are you cold?" The man asked. Now that they were alone, he'd softened his demeanor. Mary nodded. "Here you go then." The man reached down and yanked his shirt over his head, handing it to Mary.

"What am I supposed to do with this?" she asked. She sniffed it. It smelled like burned fish.

"Wear it I'd expect," the man replied. "Weren't you cold?"

"Yes but..." She inspected the inside of the shirt to check the size. "Is this your name?" She asked. "Jay-soo-in?" She read the word that was written there. Jeisuin.

"Jay-sween," he corrected her. "As in: Jeisuin is the coolest and most mysterious man you've ever seen."

"I'm not wearing it," Mary decided. He was so annoying. Her teeth began to chatter.

"Well I won't let you freeze to death." Jeisuin frowned. Then, he pulled out a match, lighting one. Then, he put it to the boat, setting the wooden dory ablaze.

"What the hell are you doing?" Mary screamed. She frantically started to look around for something to use to put out the fire as her heart pounded in her head, making it hard to think.

"Warming you up!" He announced.

"You're going to get us killed!" Mary screamed. You're so stupid!" With a great heave, she pushed Jeisuin over the side. The water splashed into the dory putting out the flames.

"Help," Jeisuin blubbered. "I can't swim. I'm going to drown." Her heart was still pounding and she was shaking with cold and fear. She could not let this man get the best of her.

"I do not care," Mary replied, accentuating every syllable. She turned away from him with a grand harumph.

"Ahoy Mary!" a voice shouted from the darkness. Charlotte's voice!

"Ahoy!" Mary shouted back. She would be saved! Charlotte, in a makeshift raft, pulled up alongside Mary's dory. Mary grabbed Charlotte's calloused hand and pulled herself onto the raft.

"Ye deserve to die," Charlotte said coldly.

"But we'll save you this time," Mary finished for her. Charlotte gave Mary a confused look, not that Mary noticed.

"Thank you! Thank you!" And Jeisuin launched into a song about saying thank you and how wonderful women were.

Hey again! If you've made it this far, you deserve a HUGE thank you!!! It's been a week and I cannot believe this book has 50 you heard me 50 reads!!!

This chapter really ended cleanly so...what do you think will happen next?

Thoughts on Beck?

What about Jeisuin?

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