Toz, Nil, and Mindle were already used to how small their wooden island was, so they weren't surprised when they arrived at the boats before their conversation ended.
As Toz had expected, the two pirates who had survived the invasion were by the boats. Though, Toz hadn't expected them to have pulled out a table, a couple of chairs, and a set of playing cards.
They hadn't noticed Toz and the two cats' arrival as they continued playing with the cards. It wasn't until Toz stood behind one of them that they noticed. One saw him directly, and the other noticed the shadow. The one who saw Toz was too stunned to speak, but the other one, the one with the eyepatch, began turning around while deftly hiding his cards somewhere.
"You're back already? Didn' I say t'was a small raft? I was just telling Hods that–
"Wait, yer not Kart?!"
The eyepatch pirate had been too busy shoving away his hiding cards to notice he wasn't talking to another one of the pirates that had returned to the boats.
