---Somewhere in the Great Sea, between Theramore and Menethil Harbor---
Galeas had asked for the practice dummy that was bolted to the goblin's ship's deck, and was giving it quite the workout with his borrowed sword that afternoon. One thing to be said for Mezzik Seasplitter was that he kept a well-supplied ship; who would have expected a genuine, regulation training dummy on a freighter?
Suddenly, Sherelandia let out a high-pitched squeak--an unusual sound for her. Galeas turned to see if the ship's cat had scratched too hard or something, but instead saw that the dryad's eyes were wide with shock, and her ears were quivering. The cat lay on the deck before her, clearly vexed at the interruption of the belly-rub Sherelandia had been administering.
"What's the matter?" Galeas asked her.
"I felt a great disturbance," Sherelandia told him.
"A disturbance?"
"As if millions of maggots suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
"Maggots." Galeas gave the dryad a dubious look. Her compassion for animals had never extended to insect larvae before, but then again, there was no telling what cause she would embrace from one minute to the next.
"I'm afraid something terrible has happened," Sherelandia said in a small voice, grabbing the cat and cuddling it close.
"Um...okay. Let me know if you get any more maggot vibes, all right?" Galeas turned back to the practice dummy, shaking his head. "I swear," he muttered, "sometimes I feel like some cosmic entity is using my life to tell a series of bad jokes."
Edited by Galeas on 7/1/2012 1:20 AM PDT