"We're not here for charity." said Lilan brusquely. "It's their own stupid fault they got caught, so we're not going to--"<br/><br/><em>"Can you hear me!"</em>the woman called, audible only to Kisara's sharpened senses.<em>"It's a trap, they'll destroy your boat like they did--"</em><br/><br/>And then, before there was a bump from below. Sailors cried out and some lost their footing as the boat lurched to the side, the cracking of timber audible as something hit it from directly underneath. Lilan let out a curse as she lost her footing and went over the side entirely. Ahead of them, the roadblock was becoming visible, breaching the surface.<br/><br/>For a moment, it simply looked like a wall of rotting, slimy flesh, gnawed and eaten away--it was possible to see small carnivorous fish thrashing around inside the holes chewed in it, suddenly high and dry. Then the toothy upper jaw and a single huge eye became visible, and it became clear that this thing was a whale, or at least it had been in life. But this was no unintelligent beast, it had stopped them on purpose. Stopped them in order to--<br/><br/>Behind Kisara, there were the sounds of scrabbling, as if of bony fingers on the hull. Near-panicked shouts rang out among the smugglers.<br/><br/>"Get some fire! Get some fire!"<br/><br/>"The ship's damaged!"<br/><br/>"We gotta get moving before the sun sets!"<br/><br/>"They're coming up the side! Shit, that's a lot of teeth--"<br/><br/>"Where's the captain? Is she gone?"<br/><br/><br/><em>OOC: I made a mistake earlier--Eyes Above doesn't require Effort to use, so you still have a full stack. Also, did you roll your d20 from the War intrinsic benefit? If not, this might be a good time to do so.</em>