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his slender shoulders.
     
    “Ah damn. He is kinda decent-looking...in a creepy kinda way,” Hain thought aloud. “You should take that mask off more often and learn to glow like your woman!”
     
    Delare only quietly put his mask back on and stopped paying Hain any more mind. Then he tightrope-walked it back to his nest.
     
    “What am I saying?” Hain asked mostly himself as he hung over the rail like a beaten rug. “The glow from this boat is what’s going to kill us all.”
     
    “The ‘gravy bowl’ appeases the sea caelestis and we should be thankful to her for having survived this trip. So do stop insulting her before I throw you over next and see if you have the same effect.”
     
    “Naked and fed to a caelestis that is said to have the somnus of a gorgeous mermaid... I want to live long enough to try that one day.” Hain thought to the reach of Kas’ psi as he hung over the rail like the drunk he was supposed to be.
     
    Kas let out a breath of relief after the conversation ended. The Dock mistress let them be alone, taking the attention of the griffin somnus and his katana in-hand, with her. “That was close.”
     
    “Meh, your welcome,” Hain grunted back.
     
    “So exactly what happened to the other soldiers again...?”
     
    “Two things you should never do to a female. Try and cheat her or insult them within reach of their claws. Fresh mercs have horrible manners.”
     
    “I will have to thank my mother for the etiquette I inherited from her with a prayer later on.”
     
    “Maybe your high-and-mighty self works in the Sanctus, but you’re not going to last a minute against the Caelestis if you can’t even take on Gloria. ”
     
    For your information, I have already spoken with her many times.
     
    “Of course you have, in your Dreams. ”
     
    Kas had almost blurted out the last six months of his Dreamwalking expeditions to Earth, but decided to keep quiet. Not because he didn’t trust Hain, as the former Custos had once served his mother and saved her life on two occasions, but for the sake of the other Awl on the ship. The only Awls he had ever known next to Hain were those who were loyal to his father. Delare he had yet to see proven otherwise.
     
    “You ever get the feeling we’re sailing to our deaths?” Hain hiccuped as he looked across the dark blue ocean to the Torian Continent. It loomed like an ill-omened shadow in the horizon’s fog.
     
    Kas couldn’t help but the fear that the old phelan somnus might be right. With the scars on his dark-tanned face, arms and chest, Hain was the perfect painting of many near-death encounters. “I have not foreseen such.”
     
    “Oh? Just what have you foreseen then?”
     
    Kas looked up to where the Thread sails raised to the coming Aur storm of the morning from the Torian Continent, as the estus energy of the waves under them cracked and sparked to its counterpart above. When the energy struck the ship, it was quickly channeled to the masts from the metal on the sides and just under the deck of the GLORIA. Then the energy was released by the pluma Thread of the stringy sail that floated safely behind them. If the ship had been going faster, it might have left a colorful rainbow to drift in the air for a while.
     
    The Thread was weaved as a dense version of pluma silk, which was the best conductor for estus and aeri energy alike, and what kept the energy from choosing to go through them instead. When the Aur storm was over ten minutes later, the Thread dropped to the sides of the masts to cool. Then it was twisted back away by the contraption made to do just that. The white cloth sails were then lifted once again to fill with the fresh, crisp air that would drift them to their destinies. Where death may or may not be laying in wait for their last breath.
     
    “No, I mean seriously, why didn’t we take a Sano with us if this mission is so important?”
     
    “Do you doubt in my abilities?”
     
    “A phelan is best suited