Terhikki eyed Marina in bewilderment as she spoke the creature's name. Sa..rovask? Saskorav? Savoskar? Terhikki's mind chewed on the word for a few seconds before she ended up at the proper 'Savorask' as she initially thought she'd heard. What a weird word.

"You wha-" She cut herself off as Marina gave the warning to 'grab onto something'. Terhikki wasn't one to be slow on the uptake, so she squared her stance off and went from a full-stand to a sort of primal crouch, making her tall frame quite low against the deck as the turbulence hit. She grit her teeth as the boat rocked suddenly, her body taking the impact and refusing to do more than slide a few feet towards the side. Her head snapped to the side as a crewman got launched off the ship and she seemed wholly intent on diving into the sea after the individual, but she found herself rising slower as her senses kicked into overdrive-- danger was afoot.

In that instant that the sarovask leapt aboard the Skullfish, Terhikki's demeanor shifted. Her eyes became like ice- no longer mirthful or happy, just hard and cold. Her usual aura of jovial energy seemed to collapse and leave an eerie primacy to her actions. Her stance shifted to keep her weight low, her footing in control as the ship rocked violently. It was like being back in the Frozen Sea.

[i]Just unbearably hot and full of frogs with razor sharp teeth, apparently.[/i]

Her hands went to her hips and she pulled out the curved ice axes she carried, swiftly looping her hands into their safety leashes as she gripped the climbing tools by their handles.

Terhikki made eye contact with Marina and nodded. She silently lurched forward and sped across the deck at the nearest Sarovask, ducking low and sprawling forward as its tongue shot out at the space where her throat used to be. She tumbled forward across the deck of the lurching ship and found herself quite low at the creature's quadrupedal feet, where she planted herself and swung her ice axes out. Rather than biting into flesh, they hooked behind the creature's frontal legs. Terhikki swung her arms out, throwing the creature's legs apart and forcing its body to crash forward and down to the deck.

She then launched herself to the side to avoid being fallen on by the sarovask, and upon its frontal body toppling down she moved herself to swiftly bring the handles of both ice axes down on the back of its head in a rather brutal bludgeon with her weight and strength behind it. Didn't matter how hard a thing's armor was if you rattled its brain in the shell. She didn't like having to kill things and despite the danger to the crew she was willing to try to incapacitate the creature if she could.

[i]Move, move, move! C'mon girl, don't let them eat your new friends![/i] She thought frantically as she felt her heart begin to race. Combat wasn't what she was explicitly trained for, but some of her hunts had turned dangerous in the past and she'd found bopping things on the head often made them stop wanting to eat you.