Jack had climbed down to retrieve her hatchet, and heard Captain Moon's order as she was slipping it back into her belt. She looked up quizzically, as the mizzen was the third mast, while most of the wind would be better caught by the foresail and the mainsail - but she was the captain.
"Aye, aye, captain!" she said hoarsely, pulling out her bosun call and piping in 'mizzen sail half' and 'mizzen top half' before joining the mizzen crew climbing the shroud lines.
"Reef them sails!" she ordered. "Capt'n wants them short!"
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