"Okay, I just wanted to check, in case I called you one and then I was wrong!" Usopp smiled awkwardly back, blushing just a little bit at Bridget's smile. Actually, Bridget reminded him of someone other than Bon-chan... Kaya, that was it. Bridget looked kind of like a male Kaya.

Which made storytelling seem all the more natural. "So, Bridget, what sort of story are you in the mood for on this journey? Would you like to hear about when I was nine years old, and my pirate crew captured the dreaded Queen of Eels, a horrible monster that was half eel, half queen, and all evil?" He took a bite of his muffin after the introduction, giving him a pause so he could start thinking ahead about what exactly might have happened when he captured the Queen of Eels. Besides, maybe Bridget didn't like stories with eels or queens in them.