And a few hours later, Akien appears!

"Morning."

"Hm? I suppose it is. I should probably sleep at some point."

He looks out a window. "… You probably should, if you've been up all this time, yeah."

"Getting us far far away from our pirate friends. You two content to let the autopilot run while I sleep, or should I set down somewhere?"

"… Autopilot being as it sounds? I don't think we mind too much."

"Yeah, it heads in a straight line and tries to avoid obstacles. Records our course too. Very fancy."

"Huh, cool. Anyway, yeah, go ahead."

He sets a tower of gears clicking and spinning. The controls adjust themselves minutely. "See you around noon. Please don't turn that off."

"Wasn't planning on it. – Oh, actually, hold on a minute?"

He gets the same thing out of his bag as before, the bracelet.

"Looking at my chi, lack thereof, again?

"Am now!" he says, eyes glowing blue. "… Yep, continues to look less like a lack thereof."

"I will think about that when I wake up."

Shrug. "I'll go get to doing some iron, I guess."

He wakes up around noon, looking much less frazzled.

He will probably stumble across Evara unless he specifically goes looking for Akien.

He ignores both of them in favor of checking over the engines and heading back to the bridge, actually.

Evara pops out after a bit to ask if the offer of food still stands, because um, she's a little bit peckish.

"As long as I get my magic lanterns at the end of the trip. Food's part of the fare."

"– I should maybe go remind him about that, I'm not sure what he's up to right now. Plus he should probably eat too."

"Knock yourself out. I'm going to disassemble those crossbows for parts later - which I claim wholly as salvage by the way."

"I seem to remember something about us scaring them off," she says, raising an eyebrow, "but sure."

"Yes yes, I'm the greedy captain - the one whose property was most damaged and generally at risk during that encounter. There's a hole from their grappling hooks near the back of the ship you know."

"I was simply pointing out it wasn't necessarily as clear-cut as that."

"Which is why I am asserting that I claim them. You two aren't going to be pressed for money, really. And you did probably put me at marginally higher risk of pin cushioning than just sitting there and letting them take loose items would have."

"… I mean I don't know what your risk was of that beforehand, but it definitely wasn't high with us around."