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a stranger in a strange sky
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Eefina Selvarn
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Her ship, a small metallic skiff shaped like a silver blade, cuts downward through the clouds as Eefina pilots it into the atmosphere of the world below. The deck hums softly under her feet with the sound of its voidstone engine, but there isn't so much as a hint of vibration or sound allowed to reach her as her ship's descent is met by the roaring wind of her ship's speed.

The sun is down, but the Silver Moon shines brilliantly overhead. Does it look smaller, from down here? It shouldn't. It looks the same as it always does. She's so very far from home, and yet, not so far after all. Ever since the Shrine lost contact with Kalimon, the once-beautiful skies of Arcadia have seemed darker, foreboding, yet simultaneously alluring. What could have happened down here? What could have stopped Kalimon from coming home?

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chaeral-night
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She should probably be more worried about what might stop her from getting home.

Like, for example, this big steel airship, propelled by side-mounted impellers, roaring with the sound of electric motors as it powers through the clouds below her. Cannon turrets swing around, and thunder booms as explosive shells hurtle through the air at her much smaller and more elegant craft.

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The concussive blasts toss her into her ship's control panel, against its walls. Her head cracks violently into the wind-screen, and Eefina slumps to the deck, passing out as her ship lists and starts to sink.

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The Valuan battleship fires grapples, and reels the tiny silver vessel down onto its deck.

 

But they are not alone. Another ship lurks, a more-primitive galleon of wood and sails, but one that none-the-less has matched pace with the steel battleship and snuck up on it under cover of darkness. Its cannons fire a shot over the bow as it swoops in, crewmen throwing grapples of their own to hook broadside onto their metal quarry.

And flying proudly above its sails, is the pirate flag of the Blue Rogues.

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