“Explorers?” Ben asked, pleased by the idea.

            “He’s…” she wanted to say he was famous in her time, and well respected. But that was stretching the truth. In England he was called Sir Francis Drake, known as the Dragon, but in other parts of the world they called him the Pirate Drake and knew him as a murderer. They couldn’t trust this man who was only loyal to himself and the British Crown. “If he’s not lying, I think they just came because they were… curious.”

            “If he’s not lying…” Ben repeated to himself, before smiling at the strangers....

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