[Norrington assumes that the question is a snide acknowledgement of their differing appearances and that the pirate had asked it an attempt to conjure sympathy - after all, the admiral is finely dressed indeed. He seems well off by all appearances, so where's the hat to top it off? While Barbossa wanders lost in a plain, drab shift. Well, let him wander. He would be more successful at squeezing pity from a rock.]

It is such a peculiar thing - to be robbed of all that you have ever owned and dropped into this place - but it is not such an unusual thing. Every person here has experienced the same, myself and all the others, and speaking of it will get you no sympathy.

[It is not true, of course. In his own experience the people of Luceti are extremely generous to newcomers, and even being rendered penniless is arguably tolerable in a village whose shops stock items free for the taking. But Norrington's immediate deception is itself a misdirection. He had found his own hat soon after arriving, and if Barbossa never knows that? Well then he will never consider stealing it.]

[OOC: Have you met our witty Jack-player yet?]