It had been a day since the his ship crashed, and so far, Riisi had managed to go undetected. His galleon had been attacked by a ship, an Emeraldgold Empire Caravel. The battle had been fierce. In the end, the caravel had been destroyed, and the Galleon crippled. It had crashed here.
Eight Emeraldgold Yuanti had survived the crash. Each was the size of a human, with iridescent green and gold scales, and piercing slitted eyes, and wide, serpentine ears that seemed to run down their necks to their shoulders. Each was a magic user. After the crash, they had systematically captured and executed the other survivors of the ship. They hadn't cracked the safe yet, you think. Riisi had been hiding out beneath collapsed ship, in a hidden recess in the stones, with a barrel of supplies.
He heard movement outside, and voices.
"Spelljammers." One of them hissed. "I don't recognize their vessel."
Another replied. "Most kind of them to bring us a ship so soon. Oh look, one is waving. Let's see if they'll pick us up, then we'll slaughter them in their sleep."
The others nodded, adopting friendly visages.
Riisi spied the ship, and didn't recognize the design either. A sleek looking frigate of unusual design, with a tower at the back and a ring of fire around the center. It seemed to fly without any sails or balloons!
Brother Jonathan and Fyodor Saltsvits would see one of the figures wave back, with both arms, like a castaway in need of rescue.