I feel confident in saying it wasn't your fault, Miss Arkady. Roosters are complicated beasts.

Me, I'm as well as can be expected. [ Which is very much a non-answer. ] Spent the weekend as a man accustomed to mugging people for more than their tail feathers, but I assure you there was no identity crisis involved -- I was a pirate to the bone. I even had an undead nemesis.

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As pirates often do.