"After the merfolk soldiers captured us, I entertained myself with card tricks. The merfolk were mesmerized by

"After the merfolk soldiers captured us, I entertained myself with card tricks. The merfolk were mesmerized by my talents and demanded that I teach them. So, I suggested a wager. We'd play cards. If I lost, I had to teach them my card tricks before they executed me. But for the next three days I couldn't lose. I won all their money, armor, weapons, their dolphin mounts, their funny bone things they like to put in their ears, and even their Flute of the Hundred Sea Winds, which used to belong to their general."