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Ilvie handles the old photo carefully. “What a great, proud woman! And I really like her eye patch!” she says with admiration.

Leonie giggles. “Hee hee—yes, the eye patch; that was my great-grandmother’s fantastic pirate trick. You see, she fought on the decks of the ships that she and her troop conquered, but then sometimes the fight shifted suddenly down to the cabins and the rooms under the deck. When you go from sunlight into a darker room at first you can’t see anything because your eyes have to get used to the darkness. However, if you’ve ­always had one eye ­covered while the sun is shining and then you take the cover off in the dark, you can see much better than your ­opponents who had both eyes free in the sunshine. You should try it sometime! It really works. And there’s something else—­great-grandmother decided that she looked bolder and scarier with the eye patch; that’s why she almost always wore it when she was on board. It’s probably still in some box on her ship. Maybe I should put it on over my bandage—then I’d look as strong and bold as ­great-grandmother Grace!” says Leonie with a giggle.