"I hope he doesn't come after us. Did I just bad-mouth him? No, I was praising him all along. Oh, right, so why am I worried? Some people should be, though."
Many pirates instinctively look in the direction of the old sea cucumber pirate. He feels pretty awkward because his drunken gibberish has somehow reached the ears of the main subject.
The sea cucumber pirate stays put in embarrassment, not daring to move.
Outside the tavern. Not long after Ivita and his group stepped out, the Hearthstone Witch asked Ivita, "The two worthless, old pirates in the tavern were blathering nonsense. Do you want me to kill them for you to intimidate the other pirates? They're so disrespectful."
Ivita shakes his head, "They're just a bunch of fickle wallflowers, I don't care about them."
"They're just drunk babbling. It doesn't do any good to get caught up with them."