But Seriously Pirates?

"I just don't understand the piracy thing." Rowan was still rowing. I guess I could have helped, but that would have been out of character for me and if I said I did it you wouldn't believe me anyway.

"What's to understand they overtake slower ships and get them to give over their cargo under the threat of violence."

"But they sail in a wooden ship, with sails! Most modern ships are steamers with iron hulls!" I mean I'm not a nautical expert despite sinking several ships over the years (counter to my expertise on gods, because lets face it, harder to kill a god then sink a ship!)

"Maybe where you're from they are steam ships, didn't you notice you took a sail boat to get to our island?"

"I did, I just thought that was me being cheap."

"Modern ships are a luxury down here, mostly because the waters are so shallow, most of thsoe modern ships are simply too big to fit down here."

"Ok Ok, I'll give you that, but seriously pirates?"

"Times got tough, fisherman had trouble paying the bills years ago and turned to robbing, the sad part is the fishing has recovered and makes way more money than the piracy." That was kind of sad in a man people are dicks why can't they just earn an honest living sort of way, the complete opposite of how I run my life.

"So you're saying I'll be doing the pirates a favor by sinking their ship?"

"No you won't you'll make my life worse, but apparently you don't care about that as much as you pretended to at the start."

"Nonesense, this will be good for you I promise." Promises are like lies only told with slightly less honesty. I'll admit I didn't know how it would be good for Rowan, but once you've set your mind to sinking a ship its hard to back out. At least that's what I told myself.