Camie tucked a strand of hair behind his ear nervously.
Nine pirates were staring at him.
"Uh... hi," he said as soft as he could.
"Hello!" a boy (girl?) with a straw hat and scraggly black hair said. "I'm Luka!"
"I'm Camie, and this is Papag," he responded, trying to be polite. He gestured to the starfish sitting on his lap. Papag waved.
"Are you a mermaid?" Luka asked.
"Erm... not in that sense," Camie answered. "I'm a merman, but it's pretty much the same thing."
A blonde girl with only one eye visible stuck a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, staring intently at the orange starfish. "Maybe I can fillet him..." she muttered to herself.
"Oh, please don't!" Papag shrieked. A look of horror appeared on his face. Luka's eyes widened.
"Cooool," she said in amazement. "A talking starfish."
Camie smiled. They hardly seemed like pirates at all.
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