"Yes!" The Guardian cheered, gently. It's voice encouraging. "Pull through for your family. You will see them in day's time. I promise." A promise pulled right from thin air, indeed. It would be expected many years before anyone would find their way back. If ever at all.
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Mortimer wailed in horror, seeing his new Captain be attacked. It was a flurry of water colors and water from his view. Pacing back and forth along the deck, tail lashing. These things vanished like nothing. It would have to be tiring, he thought, to keep regenerating the apparitions from thin air... was it even air? "Ughhh!"
Chokka yowled, recoiling as her nose was tore into. Ramming a paw down towards the fox's face. Pushing away, she would hiss. Unknowingly back into the cobra, turning she reared, and would swipe another heavy paw towards it. The ship was rocking heavily in the storm. It's presence now lingering over them. The colors of lightening getting ever closer. Mortimer could be heard screaming in the distance.