Lokii Prologue #3

Aye now listen here. As always, it is the little things that get me in trouble. This time it was these here barnacles. I know what you’re thinking, “How can barnacles get you in trouble!” Well I’ll tell ya. Capt. Longshot told me to scrape ‘em and I didn’t. I told him I did. He wasn’t going to check anyway. I just took a nap in the hold and came out later. He yelled at me to get scraping and I told him I was done. Now I wish I had scraped them. Ya see, them little buggers don’t do any harm except when they get all together. They kinda like pirates that way. One pirate is nothing to worry about; one hundred pirates is. Well when you get a ship full of barnacles it seems to slow down a bit. It usually doesn’t matter except when you’re trying to outrun the fastest ship in the King’s Navy.
Capt. Longshot was mighty pissed that we couldn’t go faster. What really made him mad was when the ship went down all he and the rest of us crew could hold on to was barnacle board. HA! Anyway, after drifting 5 days at sea, Capt. Longshot and I were a little crazy. Some rain had come to quench our thirst, but we were starving. Capt. Longshot says, “I’d give up me map for a meal right now.” I say, “What map?” The captain pulls out a tube and starts waving it around. “This map,” says he. Now you know I’m a pirate and you know we pirates love treasure. So when Capt. Longshot died I took the map, he wasn’t going to use it anyway. Inside the tube was the deed to a ship called the Lollygagger and a direction to the eight seals of the future. Now all I need is a boat to shore and a drink. I have plenty to eat now, right captain. Hahahahahahaha