"That was truly a despairing moment; you've finally grown up, yet you'll never have the day to raise the sails again."
Another lightning bolt cut through the night sky, and Eve's peripheral vision caught sight of the others, led by Wol, the crew busily working on the ship, silent and facing the storm.
"I muddled through like this for a long time, though aged, I could never forget the longing of my childhood, but alas, it remained just a longing, a bygone relic cast out by the age, with no place in the new era."
"I didn't marry and have children; I spent all my savings to buy the Silverfish and gathered a group of children who also held nostalgia for the pirate era to become my crew."
With emotions full of either remembrance or grief, the captain slowly turned around, his weary body damp, scales like fish spread under his clothes.
