Yup. 

Yup. 

Yup. 

Time to get the fuck outta here. 

Tsarra rushes over to the side of the ship and puts her hand against the wooden hull. Now how did Hylltywyll do this again? She'd seen the spell cast twice before, once while in the cultist castle in Zeinav and a second time while they were underwater robbing a dead man's crypt. Didn't seem like there were any magic words or nothing, the little fella just made openings appear out of thin air.

Well, no. Not an opening out of thin air, you don't need to create openings out of air. You can just walk through air. Duh. Opening out of thin stone then? Wasn't that thin though. Opening out of stone. Sure. Whatever. If it worked on rocks it sure as damn should work on some wood planks right?

She focuses and the ring on her finger from the little tickster fairy glows with dark purple magic before a shadowy hole appears, expanding out from the triton's palm.^[1]

Just as Tsarra is about to celebrate her success, a wall over water pours into the ship from outside and quickly starts to flood the hull. Tsarra holds onto Cirice's hand tight and uses her magic to reverse the current briefly and suck them out of the ship out into the open ocean.^[2]

Luckily that breathing spell should still be working on Cirice so she isn't going to drown. Probably. Fish can drown technically and they can breath water. She'll be fine though. Yeah. Totally. 

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[1] Hyll's Eternity Ring: Create Door
[2] Swirling Vortex

Cirice holds Tsarra’s hand for dear life as they’re flung out into the water. At first she panics, terrified she won’t be able to breathe but the spell from before is still active and she’s fine. As the vortex rips them out of the hold she loses her grip on Tsarra’s hand, tumbling away from her friend into the watery void with no sense of what direction is up. When she finally manages to right herself she looks around for Tsarra in confusion.

“Tsarra? Tsarra?!?” She shouts, thrashing about in fear. If the spell wears off while she’s alone and underwater she’s doomed. Finally she catches sight of her friend, swimming towards her with all her strength and taking her hand once more. “I thought I’d lost you. Let’s hurry back!”

"Oop!" Tsarra tumbles through the water until the world stops spinning.

She shakes her head and looks around the agitated water until she spots the little moon elf floating under the surface. Quickly swimming over, she glances towards the ship which is taking on water quickly.

The invisibility spell had been breached and ultimately fails, revealing the massive galleon as it starts to list to the side. The guests aboard flee to the life boats in a panic while the staff desperately try to save what items they can. 

The triton woman snickers at the chaos. Hyll would be so upset he missed out on this mischief. She'd have to find another excuse for them to sink a ship next time they went on an adventure together. 

"I got an idea!"

Tsarra clears her throat and her gills vibrate in the water as she sends out a few odd clicks and squeaks into the water. After a few moments, a massive mantaglider appears out from the depths of the ocean and swims up underneath them. The massive sea pancake tows them under the water back towards shore before the water gets too shallow for it to safely swim. 

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[1]Call Sea Life

This is certainly the most strange escape from a job Cirice has ever had, but also one of the smoothest and most fun. Riding on the back of the mantaglider with Tsarra was actually really enjoyable and as they swim to shore and trudge up onto the beach outside the cave. Waterlogged and ready to go take a nice hot bath, Cirice wrings out her hair.

“We did it! Great job Tsarra! We made a great team! You were so cool! Making the hole and summoning the mantaglider! I totally thought I was going to drown but you saved me! Now let’s get this guy back where he belongs!”

Together the pair return to the Academy proper and deliver the mangled remains of the stolen corpse. Its mostly intact and reburied with all the care and attention that was afforded any mage interred in the catacombs.