slavery made him want to be smart to bypass the colonizers
Direct speech: the reporting of speech by repeating the actual words of a speaker for example "I'm going" she said.
Indirect speech: indirect speech is a means of expressing the content of statements without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech.
Answer:
instead of saying Sparrow and Liam exchanged stairs across the library you could instead try saying Liam and Sparrows eyes met from across the room or across the library, or not. I think your story's fine, if you want to make it a few more sentence longer then maybe you can put like a little backstory to why Liam and Sparrow are fighting or not it's your story I'm just you know saying maybe if you want a few more sentences it's something to put.
