[ the little distraction of a stir-stick clatters to the floor, for buffy summers drops it in her surprise. she hasn't quite managed to crouch low and retrieve it when she demands -- somewhat sharply: ] Come again?

[ both names are familiar: barbossa and the queen anne's revenge. the former, from a long litany of jack's tales and the latter from one told just after sparrow had returned from a brief return home.

she tries to question him as obliquely as possible: ] You're not talking about the Queen Anne's Revenge that used to belong to one very irate and ill-reputed Blackbeard, hmm?