20. PAPI
“Help me, you bastards!” Papi shouted.
God damn Mo and his goons to Hell. Sure, they had attacked and scattered the pirates, but did they think to fish him out of the well? No. Just another opportunity for the smugglers of the Rey Gould to forget about Papi. Well, nobody would be forgetting about Papi if he survived this. He’d make them all remember him.
The pirates had given him a broom – a f*****g broom! – to fend off the ghouls. When it had been just one, that had been fine. The Beater had just kept opening cages and dumping more and more ghouls into the well. Papi had always known the value of not diving headfirst into shallow water, but now he saw it in action. Only six of the creatures had survived the tumble without breaking their necks. And then Mo had taken
