"Oh, they're approaching us? Could they be planning to...?", Taiga uttered before the captain interrupted him.
"I like to keep reserves up for this crap. Frankly, I was going to be guiding us towards something to land on for a bit anyway..." Arkhan sighed, shaking her head, visibly looking a little tired
"THAT FOOL IS STILL ALIVE? YOU SHOULD ELIMINATE--" (Anything capped like this is Anubis[or in meta terms, Nagash.])
"Miss Undertaker! Long time no see!", the Witness waved at her while shouting back.
"Careful, Watcher. Not everyone on this is very friendly..." Arkhan muttered, having her chariot fly aboard the ship
"We can tell, but at the same time we trust that you understand the gravity of our shared circumstance to not try anything stupid.", Taiga spoke up. "Besides, we're not ones to leave others to fend for themselves in a dangerous situation."
She would fall to her knees and put hands up to cover her face.
During this entire ordeal, the Fox was watchfully and silently listening to their conversation. Their eyes were attuned closely to the two enwcomers.
"Well, I wouldn't, Kurai probably wouldn't, can't speak for the treasure hunter though." Arkhan responded as she got up from her chariot and kind of just walked over to the one she called 'Watcher' "حسنًا، يبدو أننا نلتقي مرة أخرى. شكرًا لك على المساعدة، لقد بذلت طاقة أكثر مما ينبغي لإبقائهم على قيد الحياة..." She said in Arabic
"Ain't yer fault, sweetcakes. Appreciate ya." She said, flashing the woman a wry smile before getting onto their ship.
"Get her boney lil' **** out yer ass, Arkan. Turtle wanted to steal the ship in the first place — she ain't any better."
Nimah flashed the muscular man a lazy smile, exposing the small gap between her front two teeth. She extended a frail hand, gesturing for a handshake.
"And she was talked down quickly. If you don't want shade thrown your way, don't start on a bad, dishonest foot, yes?" Arkhan didn't even bother to turn around to respond as the chariot and horses dissipated into their constituent parts.
"..." Arkhan sighed a very long sigh, pretty much watching Nimah put herself together when it inevitably happened "Don't worry she can survive that..." Arkhan said out loud
"Whoa, it's okay. You're safe now. Please calm down.", Taiga told the young lady who was dressed in a rather skimpy outfit. " Um... Do you need more clothes if I may ask?"
The Witness turned and stared straight into Akarui's eyes for several seconds then without a word, he... gave her a small nod and shifted his gaze back to the rest of the group.
"And you'd be correct. We had to use whatever we could get our hands on. Scrap metal, plastic, bones... It ended up looking like a drawing from a children's coloring book because of that. Hell, we almost sank and died during our first voyage. Good thing Eye know a lot about boats or we wouldn't have made it this far.", the Watcher chuckled.
"إنها ليست مشكلة كبيرة، على الرغم من أن إلهك ربما غاضب الآن.", he replied.
"Uh, nice to meet you I guess. I'm Taiga.", he reluctantly reached for her hand but before he could...
Taiga's eyes widened and he quickly stepped back as Nimah's decapitated head and body fell onto the ground, clearly shocked by what just happened in front of him. In contrast, the Witness remained unfazed as he simply stared at the violent scene.
"If you say so. Still, your friend right here didn't have to leave a mess on our ship. Blood can be difficult to clean after all.", the Watcher said in disapproval.
"...Trust me, it's therapeutic. You'll like me a lot better when I'm not wanting to slice someone's head off than when I do." Kurai murmured, before sighing, wiping some blood off of her exoskeleton with her claok.
"إيه، سوف يتغلب على الأمر. على الرغم من ذلك، شكرًا على الرحلة، لا أعرف كم من الوقت كان بإمكاني الاستمرار في ذلك" Arkhan smiled
"If I wasn't getting nagged to not push myself I'd make a skeleton to clean up, but it's how the cookie crumbles..." Arkhan gave a slightly faux yawn, though she was actually feeling tired between the damage sustained by her attempted life drain and keeping things up that long.
"...Thank you." Arkhan smiled to Kurai now, ruthless as The Witness knew she could be, Arkhan wasn't unfriendly until someone got on her bad side, and wasn't outright hostile unless seriously provoked or attacked, considering he still had the scars that draining blade, there was an experience to be had in fighting a Necromancer who wasn't incompetent in melee.
"Why of course. Though they didn't help us build Mandjet, there are others here including some Dogma users. In fact, a Dogma user was how we were trapped here in the first place.", the Witness said as he started the engine of the boat.
"يمكنك الاسترخاء الآن، سأتولى الأمر من هنا.", he responded while pointing at a row of seats on board.
"شكرا ، سأجلس بسعادة وأسترخي لبعض الوقت." Arkhan said, gingerly sitting down on the nearest chair she seperated from the rest.
"...Good enough for me." Kurai said, reforming her mask but only over her mouth and nose, serving as a form of protection from the gases and fumes that would undoubtedly become worse as they went deeper into the centipede.
"Awww, thank uuuuuuu~!" Gwen hopped on the ship with grace and went over to Nimah's side, albeit not making physical contact.
She didn't bat an eye to Taiga and tried to hug Nimah upon being asked. "Are you that oblivious, hm? Be like her who appreciates my beauty, okay?!" she pouted.
"You have anything to say?" The fox asked, walking their way to the ship as they stood at the edge, watchful and not really that communicative.
(Bruh
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"H-Huh? I... Alright then. I'll just take that as a no.", he replied in a confused tone before turning away.
"Taiga, go grab some more masks and hand them out. We're heading back to base.", the Witness said to his friend who had recovered from the gruesome sight of Nimah's 'death'.
Taiga looked at the newly resurrected Nimah, then his eyes moved to her previous body, and then they moved back to her again.
"Hey! We could have- Oh, nevermind. It didn't sound that weird in my head.", the Watcher shook his head slightly. Taiga, meanwhile, already started cleaning the bloodstains from the floor using a piece of cloth and some cold water.
"There are a lot of things you can do with a freshly deceased body. I could have harvested her limbs and organs in case we needed them, or Arkhan could have turned her corpse into another one of her undead minions. Just a few examples.", he explained.
"Yeah... Just put it in there.", he pointed at his empty opened suitcase. As if to demonstrate how it worked, his friend Taiga placed the box of face masks inside the luggage and closed it. When it was opened again right after, neither the box nor the masks were anywhere to be seen.
"Abracadabra.", Taiga closed the suitcase and opened it again to find the head had vanished without a trace.
"So there must be a limit to your ability to return from death, yes? What would you want me to offer for another corpse?", the Witness asked.
"If there's a limit, I wouldn't be blabberin' 'bout it." Nimah said. She flashed him a small smirk, idly running a hand through her unkempt hair. "Tell ya what: after everythin' is said n' done, I want this boat. Till then, ya have the rights ta take any corpse o' mine ya want, 'ssuming I die again. Sound like a deal?"
"Eye mean, sure? We wouldn't exactly need it anymore after we escape, unless we have to travel on water again for whatever reason.", he agreed to her conditions.
