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“That sounds fascinating! May I see?” asks Ilvie curiously.

“Of course!” says Leonie, jumping from the swing, wiping her fingers on her overalls, and digging around in the box.

A pirate! A pirate for a great-grandmother! How exciting!

‘I think we’re going to like the human world a whole lot!’ she twinkles cheerfully to her little friend Theo.

‘Spirate, kirate … what is that? What do you do as a spirate?’ twinkles Theo back, still chewing. The human world seems cryptic to him.

Ilvie shakes her head at her little friend. Theo has a lot to learn about the human world!

“Ah, here it is!” says Leonie taking a photo from the box. “Look, this is my great-grandmother’s first ship—the Anastasia!”

“Wow, it’s beautiful! Take a look, Theo. What a beautiful ship the ­Anastasia is!” cries Ilvie with delight.

“Great-grandmother was so wise and strong that she conquered all the other pirate captains!” says Leonie. “After a while, the beautiful Anastasia was simply too small for the giant troop of courageous women and men who sailed with her. In the end, my great-grandmother had the biggest ­pirate ship that the world has ever seen, by the toothless Sphyraena!”