Relic smiled and waved. She was quite nervrous
She began to talk. Very quickly.
"I've been sailing before I could walk, I'm really useful...on a ship...I mean, I've got no formal experience, but I can probably tie a knot. I mean, I can do lots of things!
I mean, I've been on dozens of ships-hundreds! Most of them sank. Which isn't really surprising, I mean, sooner or later every ship sinks right. But, some people say I'm bad luck, but you know I don't really believe in luck, as much, you know, as skill as confidence. Who needs luck, am I right?
I'm saying, you know, the first ship I was on was the Swollen Maroon, she was a good ship, a trader, we were going to sell these pretty bolts of rainbow colored cloth across the sea to the men with the golden pointy hats, but our captain decided to take a shortcut-on the ocean!-and he ran us right into Shipbreaker point. I ask you, who in there right mind sails near a place called Shipbreaker point? Well, anyway our ship broke up on Shipbreaker point, and we found a tiny rock, those of the crew who survived, I mean, and we had to burn that pretty cloth to keep warm-it was really sad, I mean, not the cloth-the cloth was pretty, I'll grant you-it was said that all those men had drowned, and they didn't even get to see the men with the golden pointy hats, or their families again, you know. Anyway, the Captain went crazy in like a week-I'm not sure why, we still had enough food and water-and he walked into the ocean, he was telling us that the Old Sea Gods underneath the waves would only save us if we gave them a sacrifice and the next day a ship came along, so I guess he was right, you know?
Anyway that ship was called the Marq Piper, and they said since I couldn't row-these skinny arms are no good at oars-or tie a knot, I'd probably make a good dancer, and they gave me these heavy iron bracelets that made it so I couldn't jump off the ship, since I for sure would have tried-I can swim like a fish, believe it or not, faster than a fish and I would rather swim than dance any day, you know, well I thumped the decks of the Marq for like a month, and the captain might have thumped me too if he had the chance, but he trusted me to cook for him and let me tell you I can't even fry fish, but I know two-dozen-and-one ways to make a mans bowels water, and he never really caught on.
It was still bad luck anyway, cause when the Majestic Bonaventura sailed off our bow and boarded us, she hanged all those pirates, every one, and sank that ship down to the Old Sea Gods, I guess-which was sad because they weren't all bad even for pirates, I mean the hanging, the ship wasn't anything special. The crew never told me which majesty they were serving, but they did set me to scrubbing pots and shucking clams, and one day a man fall overboard and I saved him! After that they called me Relic the Fish, cause I swam like a fish, and they let me learn the mantlet and ballista, when that nasty turtle Dragon swam up to our ship I put a bolt right into his barnacle encrusted shell but it bounced off and he took a big bite of our hull, I've always wondered why, if he was dumb and thought he could eat a ship, or he was smart and knew he could eat what was on the ship when it sank. I did good, but they still put me off on the next port when we had to be dry-docked for repairs-from where the Dragon Turtle bit our hull, like I said-they put me off the Majestic Bonaventura, and said I talked too much!
Can you believe that?"
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