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The first thing that Kaureerah saw was a cannonball heading straight for her. The eeaiko's eyes widened, her pulse quickened, and she drew aggressively from its kinetic energy, throwing herself to the side in desperation. Then, the cannonball simply stopped, and not by her hand. She let herself fall into the water, tucking in and sliding gracefully beneath the surface. 

The same eyes that had widened quickly adjusted to the lessened light. In the near distance, just under a hundred yards away, she could sense a Martello tower and, barely beyond it, an island and an immense slab of... [i]something[/i] that had to be the wreck. She wasn't sure who was fighting, but the safest place to be was away from the fight and the wreck was too close to the hot zone. Sighting a larger island to the West, she started to swim, easily outpacing the humans, before pausing and casting about for any in need of help. Maura was managing, but she had a [i]lot[/i] to manage. As for the others, she waited, as the pirate ship opened fire and clouds of gunsmoke drifted across the water. 

She reached out with her senses and could feel them: dozens of threshers, and there were more out in the rest of the lagoon. An apprehension seized her. Any blood in the water and they'd frenzy. With nobody taking her up on her offer of assistance, Kaureerah reluctantly turned, nerves on fire with fear, and made rapidly for shore, gently punting the laggard of Maura's three crates along with kinetic magic. The water churned with torpedo threshers and she could sense a giant Sandbar moving in the lee of the wreck. Then, she was moving in a different direction and it wasn't her concern.

She came ashore on a sandy beach, plopping down beneath a coconut tree before stopping to take stock of the others. [color=deb887]"Ewey!"[/color] she shouted, waving the [i]lauboos[/i] aggressively onto shore. [color=deb887]"Te wauter's fooll auf treshers!"[/color] She reached out again and, for a second, thought she had sensed something more, but it was just her paranoia. Clearly, it had to be. In the background loomed the immense bulk of the derelict, impressive even from this range. The ships began to fire a second volley, and there was a small explosion on the deck of the big Virangish one. She began a headcount. [color=deb887][i]Maura, Marz, Mahal, Tku...[/i][/color] That was it. She vaguely remembered Zast, Fiske, and Raffie breaking off in different directions, and it occurred to her that the latter was Virangish, along with Ren. Had the other two gone for the pirate ship or the tiny islet with the wreck? From what she knew of them, they might be the type to do either. 

Having retreated further up onto shore, Kaureerah seated herself on a large rock. [color=deb887]"Well,[/color] she added shakily, [color=deb887]"Thees ees te sefest wee'll get, baut Eye doon't theenk wee're eloone."[/color]