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part 2 of writing prompt 6 from the dreaded list<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A ship that could survive space could survive water. Theoretically. It could keep water out if it could keep air in. But the pressures of “vacuum” were different than the pressures of “trillions of gallons of water pushing down.” But the aqui were shipbuilders first, spacefarers second. This ship had an equipable rudder and its engines could be retracted to work as propellers instead of propulsion jets. Cerule checked his monitors again to make sure the elves were actually gone, then he tipped his ship towards the quivering mass of water beneath him and set it to dive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ship shivered as it entered atmosphere. For there to be this much atmosphere, there must be life in substantial quantities. Interesting. He’d thought nothing could survive out in this quadrant, as he’d told the elves. Another point for the Star-Collate Bone being here, he supposed. The ship entered freefall, turning off its engines and beginning the conversion from stellar to sea modes, letting gravity take care of the steering. Cerule too left the dive out of his hands and turned instead to his maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The maps were blank for now. Cerule took a deep breath, settled into his trance pose, and pulled a pouch of thing1<\/a><\/sup> out. He dusted it lightly across the maps and began to chant. Waves of energy pulsed through him and out his fingers, held outstretched above the maps, and the small particles began to move. They shivered, they jumped, then they began to course across the maps. Finally they sank into the screen, leaving green tracings where there had been blackness before. The maps showed… water. A globe full of it. But within were masses. Cerule zoomed in on one of the patches and saw the green legend “Great Kelp Forest.” Some form of aquatic plant life drifting in the ocean it seemed. There were traces of circles within the globe as well and as Cerule turned the maps towards those, he found delineated zones. The day zone, dim zone, deep zone, midnight zone, and the diamond zone, going inward. For most of them, Cerule could guess what the map meant as he was accustomed to voyages in his own oceans, like the day zone getting enough light to support the Great Kelp Forest he’d found earlier, but what was a diamond zone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was of course the deepest, about a third of the center of the… well, not planet; that implied ground. What did water turn into when it was at the deep center of a planet-sized mass of water?2<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n\n\n\n At that point the ship impacted the surface with a sound that made a splash sound like the whisper of a hoarse mouse, and a tumult of steam streaming from the superheated surface of his ship. It jostled Cerule across the ship and all the loose items on the ship- granted, a scant few- clattered and clanged as they flung themselves to and fro. And the windows gained the familiar, homely glow of light filtering through sea water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cerule left the maps to set the ship on a course in these strange new waters, planning to dive to a deep enough level it should scramble the elves’ abilities to track him. Granted, the elves had been improving their sensors to try to detect aqui back home on Aethershore, but he doubted they put their best sensors on their spaceships. A position at the bottom of the dim zone should do him. The light dimmed as he dove deeper until the darkness outside his ship was nearly impenetrable. Then he turned back to his maps. Another scattering of thing (see note) and another session of chanting. Now he wanted to know the concentrations of magic within this aqueous mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman Timer to 30! 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