Seeing the dragon cluelessly staring at her, Serafima was about to go down to grab him and pull him up. However, seeing as he solved the problem himself, she was unexpectedly pleased.<br/>Certainly, he had lost a few memories, but it seemed, that his head wasn't too bad from the beginning, just distracted with unnecessary stuff. It was surely bad of her to think that his memory loss was somewhat<span style="font-style: italic">useful</span>, as it gave her the chance to see if he could grow into a better person. It was not his fault, ending up in an environment where smarts were not needed, instead pleasing others a priority to live well. His bad eating habits aside, it was refreshing to see the dragon being shy and timid for once, instead of desperately trying to use some tricks to please her.<br/><br/>So, as the head of the shifter popped up next to the opening of the vent, Serafima strangely had an impulse to pat his head, using the chance where she did not have to stretch upwards to do so. Which she uncharacteristially did.<span style="color: #FF4040">"Well done."</span><br/>Even though he couldn't use any of his abilities yet, no matter if shifted or not, he should learn how to solve problems with his human form first. It was most weak and vulnerable.<br/>Besides, he could not solve every problem by shifting, could he?<br/>She had noticed him trying to shift every time, of course. Their link was not very strong, and it was something that would fade in a few days, if not renewed, but she still knew, how he reacted and also had a little bit of a connection to him.<br/><br/>That said, she did not let her hand linger for too long, bending down and grabbing him, as she pulled him up. The vent was large enough for even Snow to stand upright, only the round form posed a bit of a hindrance to them standing next to each other. The debris of the broken rotors was littered across the whole first part of the corridor...<br/><br/>She pushed the ladder he had used back down, so any potential pursuers would have a harder time to find out what happened. Just as she turned around and disappeared into the vent, the water started slowly leaking from the room they had previously been in, drenching the floor and slowly but steadily spreading.<br/><br/>As she felt them being too slow and pressed on time, the Norva effortlessly pulled the physically larger shifter along with her, circling his waist with one hand. Speeding up, her feet almost soundlessly tapped along the vent's walls.<br/>It was not a big deal to pull him with her for a while, while they zoomed along dark corridors and avoided narrow corners or sharp rotor blades.<br/><br/>Then again, if he should misbehave, the close proximity would also lead to more efficiency while zapping him with her magic energy. Though she was aversed to punishing him like that, it seemed to work quite fine and do him more good rather than harm.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">~ I guess, I cannot avoid renewing our <span style="font-weight: bold">bonds</span> now, if.. ~</span>The Norva pondered, as she jumped over a dangerously wide hole, with multiple rotor bladed ventillators below, leading downstairs to another room, according to the smell, probably one of the pirates barracks.<br/>Speeding along the dusty and dark corridor, that seemed to wind itself through the whole ship, she actually started being a little thoughtful and absentminded.<br/><span style="font-style: italic">~ It should be decided carefully, if such a link can be formed. A temporal one is not a problem, but as a Norva, making a contract mentally, and with your blood, is something that binds you for life....and death.~</span>There were a few escaping methods from this, however it was not a method she could or would employ. Also, compared to the dragon's lifespan, her remaining lifespan...  she stopped herself from thinking too far towards the future.<br/>For now, she had to see what was the best solution. Maybe, he would feel better amongst his own race, in the end. She felt his indignation about his alpha being a non-dragon.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">~Well, first things first - we have to get out of here!~ </span><br/>Coming back to her senses, just as they were about to crash into another rotating ventillation grille with sharp blades, she punched out with a palm, and pushed the vent out of a wall in a corridor with the created air pressure.<br/>Using the momentum, she powerfully stomped down on the falling rotor wings, propelling  her and the shifter through the corridor, and towards the other end with a similar vent, destroying it and then speeding further along down the path.<br/><br/>Thankfully, her system outlined the general direction for her, because otherwise she would need to stop and check which way she needed to go next. Finally, after another few turns and twists, they appeared above the second navigation room.  Here, the Norva stopped and let go of the dragon, finally resuming a normal tempo.<br/><br/>While it took long to describe, they had barely spent half a minute to rush through almost the complete ship complex by airvents, reaching their destination.  Compared to that, a normal routine guard post would take at least half an hour to cross half the ship, and at least five minutes while running speedily.<br/><br/>A stomp, and a clank as the ventillation grille fell from the roof, and after a second, both Serafima and Snow landed inside the room. Right now, this room was neither powered nor guarded, so the lights were out, and only the basic systems were on standby, blinking softly.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">~This should work.~ </span><br/>After a quick look around, Serafima quickly sat herself at the navigation controls, and intruded into the mainship system with a little gadget from Ayu.<br/>She jammed the doors, and after gaining control of the navigation signals, misused them to veer the ship a tiny little bit off route, slightly enough to disappear from the formation in a while, but not big enough to be noticed immedately.<br/>Then she set up the signal code that could alert Noctis and Shadow, if it was in the vicinity.<br/><br/>Now, they only needed time.<br/><br/>Turning towards Snow, she looked how he was doing.