Claudia kept a sharp eye on the deck. Sure enough, someone came up from below swinging an RPG to try to target Trisha’s Little Bird. Sitting directly off the stern, Claudia unleashed a burst to cut him and two other pirates down.
The fire that Trisha had started torched the bridge, but it didn’t spread downward. Several pirates dashed out of the lower levels, headed for their small motorboats, but Claudia tore up the boats where they hung in the davits, cutting off any escape.
By this time, roughly twenty men had gathered on the deck, many of them still armed. With a twist applied by using her rudder pedals, Claudia unleashed a long burst from her bird that swept over the deck mere feet above the men’s heads.
They began casting their weapons overboard, as if they could then pose as inno
