Donovan ignored Dean's 'request' for him to shut-up. Now was not the time to be quiet and sit by idly while who-knows-what was happening on deck, or to the waters and lands around them. But his eyes widened when Dean accused him of 'getting all the girls lately'.<br/><br/>"What?!?" Donovan nearly bellowed, forgetting about the ship and the other terrible things that had happened over the past hour. "I've gotten ONE girl, for the record. The dark elf... and that fucking -hurt-," he growled. "And I am -pretty sure- she gave me crotch-rot, though the itch is mostly gone. I -hardly- call that 'getting all the girls'," he insisted. "But that's beside the point now... as you can see, we've had the tables turned on us... and I've tried summoning strength to break the bonds... and I can't," he admitted, slowly calming a bit from Dean's accusation.<br/><br/>"I am not entirely sure what happened, but it involved you and the ship being warped like out of some fairy-tale. Weird shit has been happening around us.. and -to- us. I found Methuseld unbound, and he fled the hold to come searching for you. We found you on deck, and all this weird warping stuff was still going on around us - and you looked distressed... which I found to be quite unsettling," he said.<br/><br/>"So I got the general and myself close to you, and I assumed Aza was still in the captain's quarters below where you were standing... and I summoned the largest sphere of protection that I could manage, larger than any before, so I could fit all four of us within," he said. "Then... I blacked out." Donovan decided to leave the part out about kissing the general. It wouldn't make any difference to their situation anyway.<br/><br/>"And now I just woke up... and it seems the general saw it as her opportunity for a little payback," he said, lifting his bound hands up so that Dean could see. "I can't summon any energy yet, so I am stuck. But... can you do your shadowy thing? We need to get out of her and find the other two... and get off this twisted ship."<br/><br/>