I smiled. “Now, Captain, you learn the hardest pirate skill of all. Negotiation.”
“Report,” I whispered into my wrist-comm. LS-Land.issue.06.Little.Pirates.lsp-007
“AHOY, MEATBAG!” she shrieked. The others turned. Their leader, a six-year-old boy named Leo (lsp-007’s primary host), stood atop the plastic slide. His hat was a folded newspaper. It read: DAILY PLUNDER . I smiled
I held out my hand. “Then let me help. That’s not surrender. That’s a different kind of captaincy.” I smiled. “Now