The two beasts, at a loss as to what they should do, appreciated Cid’s direction to board the vessel immediately, and he followed behind the pair as they carried their broken commander aboard the ship, which wasted no time in detaching and taking to the skies once he had finished boarding. The higher in the stormy skies they could get, the better: it was unlikely that the Element bearers would penetrate the storm cover, and their vessel was more than fit to weather whatever his master would do to enhance the storms. He had seen to that personally.