She coughed, wheezing at the dust in the barrels and immediately covering her mouth when she heard men cackling and talking about gold with a slurred voice. What the— pirates? She knew this wasn’t a good idea but Leo and his fucking— She took a deep breath to calm herself down. Leo and his antics, thinking he knew what was best.

She felt the fear rise when she looked through the tiny hole and saw a flag with a logo on it. Yeah, definitely pirates.

Leo and Piper were on the agro II, like always with the others when they got knocked into the water by the monsters, climbed up the ship they thought it was, heard talking, and hid in barrels next to each other.

Shit. Shit. Shit, she thought, panicking when she heard a deep laugh close to her barrel. Then she accidentally made a sound— a fearful squeak, inside the barrel and the ship went silent and she knew she was done for.