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“I don’t know how to stop,” he said quietly.

“That’s a broad negotiation platform.” LS-Land.issue.06.Little.Pirates.lsp-007

The door to the simulation chamber hissed open. On the other side, not a raging sea or a cannon-blasted fortress, but a sandbox. A very large, very wet sandbox, stretching fifty yards in every direction under a perfect blue sky. In its center, a ship. “I don’t know how to stop,” he said quietly

“We want the Gummy Bear Treasury,” he said, ticking off fingers. “We want the Bouncy Castle of No Nap-Time. And we want the Key to the Big Red Button.” A very large, very wet sandbox, stretching fifty

“Leo,” I said gently, “you don’t want that. If you press that button, the pudding sea dries up. The plank vanishes. Even your ship turns back into a pile of plastic.”

He froze. The question wasn’t part of the game. The other pirates lowered their swords, confused.