The Colors I See

This novel will be going premium on September 23, with a 10,000-word update. Thank you all for your support. Marco knew from the start that this little girl probably wasn’t normal. Then again, everyone aboard the Moby Dick knew it. After all, no child would see a group of pirates and brandish a dagger at them with a menacing glare. No child would apologize by diving into the sea, hauling out a Sea King several times her size, and dumping it at the door. And no child would pick a giant hammer as her weapon of choice, then ask for two because one wasn’t enough... But Leonora knew none of that was the strangest thing about her. “You’re white,” she said. “The Whitebeard Pirates are white, of course.” The man with a crescent-moon mustache laughed heartily. “But you look red to me.” “I don’t mean your hair or your mustache...” I mean people. The strangest thing about Leonora was that she could see the colors of people’s emotions. So she hated humans, until she was seven. And after she turned seven... “I just like white, that’s all.” Sitting on an adult’s shoulders, she spoke with utmost seriousness. “Whitebeard’s white.” A few things to know before reading: 1. A sweet, slice-of-life story. The early chapters focus on raising a child; the romance comes after she’s grown up. Her love interest is Ace. 2. The timeline may change, since some details are hard to verify. 3. The Whitebeard Pirates survive, and everyone gets rescued. Theme: The eyes are the windows to the soul.