Chapter 29 Pirates (a)

I turned to Mother and she had this grin on her face. She knew I just realized what she was talking about. She could tell that her suggestion clicked inside my brain. "Mother," I suddenly held onto the side of her arms near her shoulders, my eyes still widened. "The sea creatures..." I struggled to construct a single sentence. "I know, my child," she chuckled, smiling as she removed my hands from her arms. She held my hands in hers, just smiling at me. I kissed her hands as a thank-you for her idea. I was so lost in my desperation to get through the pirates without having a battle, to be able to get all of us home in one piece and a little part of me wanted to prove that I could be a great warrior king. I returned to the map. "Do you think you could summon the creatures as we go through here on the Island of Dangling Trees?" I asked for advice. "Why don't we just go back to the path we were supposed to take a while ago?"