"Youth is never wise," Vere replied. "But how are we to learn if we do not test our wings outside of what our parents wish for us?"

His adventures could also be considered being from his own youthful arrogance, but in all honesty, Vere had expected the disasters that had fallen on him. No one sane would consider such a long voyage on a small leisure vessel like he did. It was his luck that kept them all from death during the months before the pirates were involved.

"Do you regret it?"