"Well, for now, why don't we have a discussion about something?" I told her, figuring that it would probably be better to actually talk things through before we got distracted by anything else.
"Discussion? What is there to discuss about? Don't tell me you don't know how to use that thing?"
"No, not that," I said, trying not to laugh at how quickly her mind had gone in that direction. "I would love to have a discussion about that too, but right now, I want to talk about something that is actually important to the matter at hand."
The Pirate Queen looked at me as if she were trying to figure out what exactly I was getting at, but after a moment, the confusion on her face disappeared and was replaced by a grin that made me wonder whether I had just walked directly into a trap.
"Alright, I'll hear you out," she said, looking considerably more interested than she had been a moment earlier.
At least I had managed to get through to her somehow.
