[Half a knot]

[Like many, who sought to be stronger than they ought to be the pirate captain Skrohole McGilliwiggle set out on a journey into the swamps, to meet the smiling witch. After arriving at the location the hut was said to be he got into the smaller boat, to row to thelanding stage at her doorstep. He didn't want to endanger any of his crew, so he went alone, only with his present. As he knocked on the old, moldy oaken door he heard a rustling sound inside the hut and a otherworldly voice screeched inside his head: "What is it you want?" "To enter.", he replied without moving a muscel. The door opened and he stepped inside, only to find himself surrounded by completely empty darkness, but after a while a small black haired girl appeared. She was smiling an honest and good smile. "What desire still lingers in your soul?" she now asked with a silken voice. "I want to have the fastest ship in the entire ocean." he said. "What have you brought me?" she asked as he gave her the present. "The thing most dear to me, my faithful companion." he replied, a teardrop running down his cheek, as he handed over the cage containing Knot, his monkey. "I won't need that much to make you faster", she told him "only part of what you offered will be required, but I need you to watch, OK? Because if you don't the spell won't work, or aomeone could come to harm." With that he noticed that his gaze was fixed upon the cage, with his Knot inside. The girl stepped forward, opened the cage and took out hte animal and then started to eat one of its hands, finger by finger. Sreaming like never before Knot tried to break free from her grasp, but being unable to, because the girl seemed to have the strenght of several men. After she had eaten half of the monkey she put it back into the cage, wiped her mouth and said: "Here you go." and handed the dead body back over "Every man on your ship shall eat a bite of his flesh, and no other captain shall be able to escape you."]