July 21st, 1771

He accepted! He accepted! Although, as Ben said, he couldn't have really done much else, seeing as we'd saved his life and everything. Because it worked! The plan, that is! I knew it would, but crikey am I pleased to see it really did!

He did protest though, and lots. Didn't want children on his boat, and especially not a girl, and blablabla, but to finish with he said we could come, so long as we worked hard and swore this and that and who knows what else. Anyway, I'm ten already and Ben is over twelve, so we aren't all that much like real children.

Mum'll be as angry as wild cats when she finds out, but I couldn't care less! I'm to be a pirate! Captain Shaun Cavalieris, if you please! Oh yes, everyone'll scream at the sound of that name! Every defenceless soul. But I'm not going to be too cruel, because that wouldn't be very nice. They can just give me everything they have, and I'll be content with that. I won't kill or anything. That's not right.

Oh, and I said goodbye to Dawn. I was all upset and crying, I couldn't help it. She's so lovely and I'll never see her again and- I'm getting upset again just at the thought of it. She did not believe me, but I fear she has no choice now I am gone for good. She even laughed and said my little fancies would fly away with the winds they came on. I hope she is happy with the grocer, I nearly asked her to come as well, but I don't think she wants to be a pirate. She just wants to get married. Even if she doesn't admit it. And a pirate's ship is no place for happiness.

The plan went just as planned (how funny is that?). Although Ben got a frightful beating from the guards for throwing the eggs, you should have seen their faces! It was hilarious! As shocked as anything and one even went, Here you, boy, you get back over here and apologise, come on! What a funny thing to say! I certainly would never say that if someone threw rotten eggs all over my window! But then, I am a pirate-in-the-making and not some pompous guard.

And that frightful boy was there! You know, the sparrow Prat. His curls were flying behind him and he turned and looked and me and frowned. And then walked away. I HATE him. But I'll never have to ever see him again, so I don't care.

Anyway, you'll never guess what the pirate looked like! He did have those ragtail things, masses and masses of them and all decorated like a christmas tree with bits of bone and pennies and stuff. Just heaps and heaps of stuff! I'm going to do my hair like that, although I have auburn hair - that's basically brown in my case, except for when some mean soul says I have ginger hair, but that just isn't true - and the pirate, well, he had blond hair. But it was hardly blond in reality, it had obviously been blond, but now it's so decoloured and dirty and strewn with so much stuff that it is more of a greyish nothingness.

But I love him so much. I am going to be like him when I am older. Just like him! Ben also wants to be like him, but I'm sure that's only because I said it first and then he just copied. He always copies me.

I'll describe the crew to you. There's Ragamuffin, he's a little haughty and wary of us, but underneath I am sure he is as sweet as ever you did see a pirate, and then there's Kes Johnson, he's about fifteen and very nice. He can imitate a bird with his hands. What did he call it? Oh yeah, an owl. And then Seener, he has an eye missing, someone cut it out when he was only little, so he can't see all that well, but he gave us a sherbet lemon each, so he can't be all that blind - he knows the nicest sweets. And then there's a lot of others, but I don't know them very well yet, seeing as I have only been here for a couple of days.

But, there is one of them, Besse, they call him, who is not nice. He's frightening. He- He- He looks at us so scornfully. And he is so tall you would think he's a giant. He told us to be wary. And I am, alright. Wary of him. The others are just like out of a book, but he is not nice. Not one bit.

I'm so tired that I'm going to have to go to bed now, I think. We have been working hard, trying to learn all the knots and shifting things and scrubbing and who knows what else. Besides, Ben is pulling my hair and it HURTS! He just wants to read what I am writing, but he isn't going to! So there!

Lots and lots and lots of love,

Me
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