Mouse had been watching, uncertain of the purpose or nature of the ritual for certain, but Zavros clinched it for her.<br/><br/>It would be<em>so</em>easy to think that the Dynast was screwing this up on purpose, she thought as she made her way closer, pulling Zavros with her by the arm (although given the difference in strength and size between the two it would best be called "leading" at best). It would have been<em>just</em>like a Dragon, to just create chaos and ruin things for no reason like the villain she was.<br/><br/>But.<br/><br/>But that would have been assuming her enemy was stupid. The scorpion that stung in the middle of a river.<br/><br/>And bossy, entitled cow though the Dynast may have been, Kisara was not<em>stupid</em>. Which meant there was a small chance that instead something was terribly wrong.<br/><br/>"How well do you swim?" she asked as the boat started to make its way out to sea and the procession dispersed and the other ships started to give it a wide berth.<br/><br/>"That or make another boat very quickly," she said, and dove into the water.<br/><br/>