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Smoke billowed from the ship’s wreckage. Captain Saunders and his crew baked on the sun blasted island beach. In the near distance, the pirate ship sailed back out to sea.
“This is a right mess, Cap’n,” his first mate said. He stroked the grey stubble of his beard. “Those pirates marooned us here, wrecked our ship, and stole all our cargo!” He stomped his boot in the sand. “And them pirates was just women!”
Captain Saunders sighed. “They stole more than our cargo, Smitty.” He
touched the ragged hole in his chest and smiled.
“She stole far more than that.”