Dawn’s eyes went from pirate to pirate as they surrounded her, their daggers reflecting the rising sun. She sighed softly. “It would have been so easy,” she said, as much to herself as to them. “But it never is, is it?” She shook her head, her hands resting on her hips. “You should have listened, you know.”<br/><br/>She raised a single finger into the air, and the power she’d been holding in exploded outward with deep, rumbling sound that shuddered through the air, making the ship tremble. The five pirates around her flew back with bone-crushing force, and the wood around her feet cracked and splintered.<br/><br/>Magic shimmered around her like a shroud, catching her dark hair and robes, making them drift on an arcane wind. She pointed at the captain, and, behind him, lightning struck a barrel with a blinding flash, sending shattered wood pattering across the deck. “I told you,” she said again, with the slightest smirk dancing across her lips. “Don’t touch.” Her gaze swept across the entire crew. “That goes for all of you. If you touch any of them, you’d best make it good, because it’ll be the last thing you ever do.”<br/><br/>She smiled pleasantly. “Of course, you could always walk the plank, and I won’t have to -” she made a sound that sounded vaguely like an explosion, and threw her arms up in the air. “And not in the good way.”<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>