Bird nudged Pio with her flipper. 'I hate to tell you this, but someone important has arrived.' She pointed with her dolphin nose at the small retinue of men who were accompanying someone up the gangplank.
'Well, then,' said Pio, ' there's nothing we can do but climb the rope at the stern, and see if we can make our way to our rooms without being seen. I certainly don't want to meet him in these wet clothes! Come, Bird, you'ld better change back to human.'
Hand over hand, they ascended to the stern railing.
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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