Before falling asleep the night before to the lulling sounds of water trickling into the hull, Taizee would have cocked her head at Land and wondered, "But, why would you digest them in the first place? Unless we were lost and drifting at sea for like a day, I think I can keep my tummy from being mean to any passengers! ... Though, it's probably a good uh... magic thingy to have if people suddenly are dying of some disease or something! Unless they'll end up being reborn with the disease.<br/><br/>Once the water reached one foot, half of Taizee's tail was already submerged, putting a lot of her buoyant mass already under water! The mermaid wasn't very familiar with the physics of water-pressure surrounding a ship's hull, so she still had no idea whether her presence was helping or not! Just trying to push her half-submerged coils down against where she felt the water rush in, Tai puffed, "Oh? We have to? How would we do something like that, we aren't allowed to eat any supplies, or sailors, right?"<br/><br/>When the captain finally gives them the go-ahead of their seemingly quite ridiculous plans, Tai would give a relieved sigh, and finally straighten upright and stretch! The mermaid would start to slither around the water-filled hold, looking for all the sailors and passengers they were tasked with taking care of and sending them up on deck for a communal briefing a bit later, and to take stock on just how many they would have to handle. Before that though, Taizee would answer Lang's uncertain pondering with a quick, "Uhm, doesn't the lifeboats have oars and stuff? I'm sure two or four sailors on each can lead the boats to shore! ... I think the difficulty might be for us not to stuff ourselves to the point of immobility... I can probably eat like five creatures my or your size Lang, but I won't be able to move much after that, so if we have to fit that many people, we'll probably have to hang on the back on some of the longboats!"