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Out ahead, a shadow clustered in flickering lights begins to take shape. Their roiling white tops - like glacial mountain tips beneath the glooming sky. The ragged waves grow more jagged without the rain. The rain slackens, draws back like a curtain. But Beatrice’s magically sensitive eyes instantly detect separate tell-tales of a Curse Rider and of Pride Eaters clinging to the Nightmare. Soon, Beatrice can make out smaller shapes clinging to the creature. As they race between the waves, it turns to pursue.
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A Cthulhu-esque horror - belching smoke, oil, fire. Belonging to the Kingdom of the Dead.” A demon mash-up of giant squid and warped oil platform machinery. Its motion reminds Beatrice of a killer whale. The monster leaps again, rises tens of feet above the waves. Everyone except Beatrice, Finn, and Mori cover their ears against the shrill cry. The Nightmare lets out a window-rattling shriek that drowns out the roaring ocean. Boom! Goes the sound of its great body slamming down. Splashes down in an explosion of water, black oil, smoke and fire. Like the waves, the monster’s rushing toward them broadside. Running between the swells and toward the lee of Wind Sun Isle, they’ve turned at a right angle away from the Nightmare.
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Sun Shepherd is crazy-quick and Finn’s got her gunned nearly to full throttle. “Whew!” Mori cheers, then glances back and left toward the pursuing Nightmare.īeatrice gives him a tense grin. Their respite only lasts a few seconds before the next wave starts to tip them sideways again.
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At last, they are again shooting down a magically smoothed trough. The vessel reels back and forth even as Praesdia dampens the storm’s violence. Shepherd corkscrews, flies off the wave top, lands with a smoosh! then takes a gut-wrenching sideways slide down the wave’s back. Finn angles the bow into the wave, cutting diagonally along its face. But its becalmed area near Shepherd helps to keep her from rolling. Praesidia can’t flatten the larger waves. Sun Shepherd‘s hull plows through a narrow lens of water smooth as glass. The shield dampens the force of any waves coming through it. A shield of magical force projecting about five feet out from Sun Shepherd and covering her completely. A hazy nimbus grows to envelop Sun Shepherd. Light ripples out through the deck, takes in the ship. “Praesidia!“ she incants, drawing deep from her stored curse energy. Unobstructed by the towering wall of water that steadily rises to Sun Shepherd’s port side. Rooster tails of spray shoot behind them. The next wave rises up as Shepherd turns broadside to it, then races down the trough as Finn guns the electric engine. Spray flies in a fan out from its direction of spin. With remarkable agility for something so large, the vessel turns. Finn wrestles the helm, Beatrice pivots to keep balance. Sun Shepherd slams through another twenty foot wave, crashes down into the trough in a curtain of spray. The sea around it - a burning, black and roiling froth.ĭisaster. It oozes oil, burns with fire, spills towers of smoke skyward.
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Black, metallic skin roars with flames, tentacles flail the swells. Each impact of its enormous body on the storm-swept water sending out a blast like thunder. Its mechanical squid-form dwarfing swells as it leaps over churning, hill-sized waves. She adjusts her center of gravity against the violent motion. Beatrice pivots on the balls of her feet.