[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Coleman![/b] To be lost down there is to be swallowed by a selfish, all-consuming love unworthy of the name. By the time you look up, Lucien’s already been swept away. You can try to put things into reverse, and expose yourselves to more danger (and certainly to finding out what’s actually down at the bottom of the Flood, and thus to likely losing your memories) or you can go full speed ahead and get Sasha, Jackdaw and technically Ailee clear. [/quote] That's... unfortunate. Coleman winces and wishes Lucien well, but it doesn't stop him from feeding more coal into Sasha and revving the engine. There's a time and place for everything, and "on a boat on the Flood with eels running from the Storm" is appropriate for basically none of his personal occasions. There will be time to go back, he tells himself, once it's not four people risking their lives to save one. [quote=@Thanqol]"You do not die!" she yelled at Lucien. "You do not die until I tell you to die! You [i]especially[/i] don't die to backwater slime monsters! Do you have [i]any[/i] idea how embarrassing it would be for me if you died here!?" [/quote] ...Three. Three people, to save two. Math looking somewhat more tenuous on that one. Jackdaw, please make the sensible choice here? You like the train, right? You enjoy curling up on a smokestack with a good book?