It takes Leareth about half a second to detect the Yeerk in her head, and another two seconds to freeze it with compulsions and then force it to leave her ear. Meanwhile he's pulling her back toward the surface. He hoped that completing the Gate underwater would mean that the Yeerk sensors wouldn't detect anything. He's not sure if that's the case. 

He shreds the Yeerk with magic the instant it's out of her. Normally he would consider taking prisoners but he doesn't want any more things to have to track right now. 

:Nayoki, I have you. You are safe: Pause to let her absorb it, as he tries to support her under his orca body. :...Do you have your Gifts back: 

Long pause, as she clings to his dorsal fin and takes in heaving breaths of air. 

:- It seems so: she sends, finally. :Thank you. How did you–:

:Gate. Tell you later. We need to - Dome ship out of control. Crashing. Need to find it - you should morph dolphin. Try the composite morph, with Gifts: 

:I am not going to be able to do that!: 

:I did it with the orca. Hurry. Please: Mental sigh. :If you cannot do Gifts then just do dolphin: 

Nayoki can, after what feels like aeons of practice, do an Andalite composite morph as Alloran. She's not nearly as good at morph control as Leareth, she hasn't had morph as long and honestly she hasn't practiced as obsessively, but she'll give it a really good try. 

Leareth is attempting to anchor a scrying-spell on Matirin's shield-talisman. This isn't working at all; it takes him thirty seconds to realize that's presumably because Matirin is in cockroach morph, and thus has his amulet folded into z-space with his Andalite body. 

He'll try for one of the mages who doesn't have morph, then.

Nayoki is now a disturbingly slightly-demorphed dolphin monstrosity with human hands and feet, but she also has Gifts! 

...Is that even going to be stable? Leareth tries to slip into z-space to peek, but he's way too distracted. Better not to risk it. 

:Try it one more time: he tells Nayoki, flatly. He doesn't know where the ship is yet anyway. 

On the second try she gets it. 

The scrying-spell doesn't quite stabilize but Leareth can at least get a direction off it. 

:Nayoki, follow me: he sends, and flings up a blind Gate along that bearing, ten metres underwater, aiming for roughly five hundred miles, then he can try the scry again. 

Moving water is hard on magic, exerting a lot of 'pressure' against it. The ocean water is mostly still but it still makes each spell around twice as hard, and Leareth doesn't have a node-generator, and he's trying not to pay attention to how tired he already is. Which is stupid, he needs to notice if he's about to pass out, and yet. 

The Gate goes up. Probably a good bit further than five hundred miles, in the end, his aim was not precise. 

Nayoki follows him through. 

Less than a minute later - just under five minutes after impact - the shockwave of it, racing out at the speed of sound in water, hits them. It's not just sound; it feels like being physically struck, and leaves his orca senses deafened and blinded. Leareth had almost succeeded at landing his scrying and now he's definitely lost it. 

:Ow: 

Roughly two hundred and fifty miles away from Leareth, the ship is now seventy metres underwater. 

The crack spreads, spiderwebbing out, and then the Dome gives way, crumpling like a stepped-on eggshell, and the ship is almost instantly flooded with water. Most of the still-functional computer systems go down. 

The medical bay is still holding atmosphere, somehow, but Marian is having the WORST DAY OF HER ENTIRE LIFE. 

<Can you Gate from someone's Farsight>

:I think so: He doesn't sound very sure of it, but it's an emergency and he's going to try SO HARD. :Does anyone have Farsight: 

Matirin knows who here has Farsight and has Thoughtspoken them asking them to try it. 

- all right, they've got Farsight on the surface. There's really nothing though, just ocean as far as they can See in all directions. 

He could give them morph but that doesn't give them an animal to acquire and if they don't find a way out of here with magic they will die even as cockroaches, just a bit slower.

<Maybe instead try Leareth>

What, try to reach him with the comms spell? Sure, that's a good idea, the mage will attempt it. 

<Leareth?> 

He was about to get the scry and now he's lost it again, but for a worthwhile cause. <Thank the gods. Are you all right>

<Not really. Dome shattered and we're sinking. Can't Gate out - no thresholds...>

<I am coming. Keep talking to me. Need a bearing. I will be right there> Most mages can't get a usable bearing off a comms spell, they're traceable but not easily. Most mages aren't Leareth, though.