Sure did look like Regulus couldn't handle the battle headed right for them.

Here he was, a skinny-assed. barely an adult man, holding a 'stick' loosely in one hand. That's what it looked like from the outside.

"Not my first fight," Regulus said. "But I've never done this on a ship before."

Regulus eyed the knives in the other man's hands. Would those work against whatever it was those other pirates were tossing at them now? Regulus would find out.

"You?"