Sand. There was sand in her face.

The small blonde girl couldn't entirely remember what had happened. One moment, things had seemed rough and she had elected to stay below deck(in part to use magic to patch any potential damage to the hull, if it came to it) and the next... she was facedown on a beach. Weakly, she pushed herself up on her hands, blinking. There were people shouting or... whatever, but the smallish elf couldn't care less about that. Unless someone was dead or something. It didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened, after all, did it? It was a shipwreck. They'd wrecked. If the girl had been less groggy and out of it, she probably would have been complaining. Instead, she shuffled to her feet and looked down at herself. Dripping wet. Her staff was still right beside her, thankfully... but she was dripping wet.

Only one way to fix that. Blue-grey light ignited in the palm of her hand and twirled lightly.

"[i]Ephix maer[/i]," she commanded, with a sigh. The water slowly drew itself from her clothing, hair, and body, twisting as droplets into the orb of turning light. Soon it had entirely gathered there. Idly, not caring where it landed, she tossed the orb of water away. Now, now she was dry. Now she could think of other things. Like...

"WHY IN THE NAME OF THE ETHEREALS DID WE SHIPWRECK?!"

It was quite the exclamation from the previously much more quiet elven girl. Surely the captain and crew had to have been picked well for such a purpose, right? Surely, they could navigate the worst of storms, right?! Then why where they smashed up on the shore, why were they lost, why were their supplies... their supplies...

Irial's eyes widened as she realized that all her books, even if they had washed up on-shore, were likely completely ruined.

"My... my books! My books are..." she turned on her heel, towards the sea. 

Had someone on the ship angered Daer Cann? Even for a fairly secular girl, the cynical thought of the Lord of Vengeance striking his fury down on the boat made no small amount of sense. After all, the Horned King of Hatred was well-known for the collateral damage of his vengeful outbursts.