![]() ![]() Lady Jaye was a thief who’d begun traveling with William the Blade after she’d been unsuccessful in picking his pocket. Joe Lady Jaye figure closer to the center of the boat. He wasn’t sure that anyone but him could tell his voices apart, but he felt different when he talked in them.Īlice’s braids spilled in front of her amber eyes as she moved a G.I. Zach had a different way of speaking for each of his figures. “We’re going to have to lash ourselves to the mast,” Zach said, as William the Blade, captain of the Neptune’s Pearl. He could almost believe he wasn’t on the scrubby lawn in front of Poppy’s ramshackle house with the sagging siding, but aboard a real ship, with salt spray stinging his face, on his way to adventure. Without gravel, the Neptune’s Pearl was likely to blow away in the early autumn wind. ![]() ![]() He pulled out the pirate with the two cutlasses and placed him gently at the center of the boat-shaped paper they’d weighed down with driveway gravel. Zachary rummaged through his bag of action figures. They’d crash the ship against the shallows if they could, lure the crew into the sea, and eat the pirates with their jagged teeth. Zachary Barlow could almost imagine their fins lashing back and forth as they waited for the boat to get closer, their silly plastic smiles hiding their lethal intentions. They were old-bought from Goodwill-with big shiny heads, different-colored tails, and frizzy hair. POPPY SET DOWN ONE OF THE MERMAID DOLLS CLOSE to the stretch of asphalt road that represented the Blackest Sea. ![]()
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