"There is a problem,"

Hlei turns to better establish communication with the others.

"the ship slows."

There is a wave of thought and consequence, she has reached to far, and she does not understand this fully.

They retract slightly and organize their thoughts, the ship slows for the flows around it have been disrupted, those that exist go the wrong way, and there is little they can catch to continue advancing.

What can Hlei do? They. Frei spots large movement. There is something disrupting the flows, blocking them making use of them.

Hlei and Crui reach for the eyes and the try to see. Somehting large, giant is there moving and they all feel a great vibration.

It shakes them, Hlei worries for the resting ones.

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It comes again, Crui communicates that the vibration might be coming from the giant, it is searching for something, it is like a device the scouts once used.

It is searching?

But,

the vibration comes again disrupting their communication. This vibration is lighter, yet it bounces around more.

Crui recognises this, it is a calling.

The device, the one that chased the beasts away? It created a similar call. If it is worried...

Hlei goes to the device, she reachestwisting the net gently, reaching to the others, "When is this halfway charged?"

A call again, lower. the vibration does not move them as much, yet it hits, harder.

"The giant is still traveling nearby, it seems to be growing, it is approaching the ship"

Hlei releases, a vibration, comes out, the giant switly moves...

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The sound, the call of a child, quite, calmer, it colms from the floating object. From the shell of some sort.

We do not know what that is, but it resembles us, it tries to speak. The call comes one last time quieter, one small creature exists it, a soft one, lost? We look closer.

It approaches the shell the little one returns inside, pulled. It must have broken off a longer shell, crying, for something to help it.

We gently nudge against it correcting it's direction, it cries once more, it is afraid, it must not be easy for such small things to make such sounds.

But we guide them to others like them. pushing them gently on their way.