8.Death

Dear diary,
 
We are leaving the Monument of Life. Eve is taking care of the Black Sylph to not break into a thousand pieces. Eve would make a great mother. Talion looks upset. Heron doesn't speak. Verfy and Nixie are chatting about something, probably faith. Overall a normal day. Xebec brought the peaches. I hope Eve will like them. I won't tell her I ordered them. I forgot to tell Xebec not to tell her. Fuck. Eh, why would she ask about that anyway. We are making preparations to go sail west towards the Great Western Desolation. Our crew is on board, everybody looks ready. We are sailing first thing in the morning. A great mist is waiting for us. Because of the desolation and the lack of rain and anything there is no wind to blow this fog that sets the entire coast of the Great Western Desolation. I talked with Verfy and she was happy to hear I wanted to teach her about the Almighty and how she can embrace our faith. I will invite Eve to our talks, she would definitely have some good input. I wonder if she is still mad with me. I couldn't tell honestly. I once again find myself eluded by the fairer sex.
 
We have set sail and with some good wind we made good progress. Towards the end of the day we reached the end of Fool's Peninsula when something weird started happening. We saw a random horse rider cloud which rode in front of our ship in the sky. Then voices, lots of voices and screams. Perhaps that were all the people that ever lived in this side of the world. All of their poor souls trapped by the curse of man's greed and ambition to outmatch God. Soon after disaster struck.
 
The one sailor we had scouting the area from the crows nest got shot with an arrow in the head and fell on the deck. Then, as we got closer and closer to the coast we started too see them. Death in all its glory. Purple eyes started to appear everywhere. Hundreds, thousands, I fear to believe there were more of them. A small fleet of 3 ships was clearly embarking to haunt the world of the living. I could feel the curse of necromancy crawling its way towards our boat. Suddenly a huge spear of destructive fire hit our ship's main mast, damaging it. We quickly tried to turn the ship around as fast as possible, but as you can imagine everyone was panicking and things were a bit messy. A female voice then started to rumble the sky. This female necromancer, Seraph, apparently knew Talion, (how in the fuck), and was glad to meet him. So she decided to greet us with more warm destructive fire spears that kept hitting our masts and the back of our ship. With the help of Nixie and my quick thinking we quickly raised up the remaining sails and a powerful gust of wind blew against us and the galleon filled to the brim with unded and we succeeded in gaining some distance. Talion then began to lift to the sky and use the power of the Almighty through the fire of his soul by throwing pure arcanic white energy in form of lightning bolts towards the enemy ship. He succeeded in disabling the enemy ships and stopped Seraph from further damaging our ship. But not before setting the ship on fire, destroying the main mast and almost destroying the second mast. The sailors barely managed to keep it standing and keep the wind in our sails. I think Talion could have moved a little quickly and save us a lot of problem, but it doesn't matter anymore. We got away safely in some random direction.
 
We then realized we were sitting still with no wind in the middle of the sea. That can only mean trouble, as everybody knew we met all of the requirements needed for a sea monster to come eat us. We all said our prayers and went to sleep. Sadly Xebec's captain quarters was absolutely destroyed so he had to sleep on the deck. He was alright with it, but I heard Verfy offering him to sleep in her room. She cannot hide it. She fancies him. Xebec looks to fancy her too. Later that night I overheard them talking and eating some of the good meat Xebec brought. Looks like he did his homework. Good on you Verfy, keep this one. He is a good one.
 
After we patched up the ship as much as we could, we sailed back to Gessen. There we found ourselves in dire need of money to repair the ship so we decided we had to sell some of our stuff to make it. I sold my... beautiful pants, Eve sold a necklace she got from her father. Everybody pitched in with as much as they could. Talion somehow managed to find this moment to complain that Verfy and Nixie took some sheets for us as second hand sails. Seriously, he couldn't've found a better moment. He of course made Eve angry, again. I don't want to talk about this anymore. Eve wanted me to keep my beautiful pants, which I found touching. And no it wasn't because I would be running in my underwear, I had spares this time. We barely managed to struck a deal for everything we needed. The ship is going to be here for 4 days, so we decided to go to an island nearby where Eve heard about some treasure hidden in a warlock's hideout. Where does her knowledge stop I wonder. She is amazing. After death almost grappled all of us her warm smile and intelligence brightened my day. I still want that hug.