i was correct!

remember how i thought we were being followed? no? well it was a few days ago and i thought i was just paranoid but now i think it actually turns out my brain wasn't trying to predict false reality and trick me. it was actually working in accord with me. here's why i think that: there has been a large bush following us. i've seen it just on the horizon. i checked all the charts and there shouldn't be a bush there ever! especially not one of this magnitude. it's a good thing i have such excellent vision because it is so far away and we don't have any telescopes because for no reason whatsoever some jerk with a peg-leg took all 26 of them and threw them overboard. he said something about how they were only backwards telescopes and so we didn't even need them and they were too heavy for the ship and that is why we have been crawling along at such a slow pace. but we haven't been going at such a slow pace. weve been going like 700 miles per hour which is like 616,000 fathoms per hour or something. i don't really know the lingo. but here's another important thing: all the telescopes cost about 1 million dollars. each! he didn't even try looking through the other side. what his name is is franklin whaler which is the only reason we didn't keel haul him. i figure we should have a man with that surname on the ship because he probably knows what he's doing. so i made him first mate.
so anyway i think it's a pirate ship disguised as a bush.