Swamped

You don't even know what you're looking at. You can't get a good enough look to tell if it's a beast or a machine, or something else entirely.

You just know that you don't want to be near it. And if you do have to fight it, well, you'd rather not do it alone. Even if your only options are Ash and a quiet kid who clearly isn't trained to fight.

So you run back in. Ash is just picking himself up.

"When did you get so strong?" he mutters.

"Wasn't me. Something made a hole in the wall. Didn't want to hang around long enough to find out exactly what."

"Outer wall or inner?" Ash asks.

"I don't know! All I could tell is something was there. And I assume it's a problem for both of us."

Ash doesn't respond. He just steps out, and then rushes back in.

"Seems to have hit us from outside. I can't tell what it is either, the clouds are too thick. What I can tell is, it's probably too big for us to fight, especially considering we don't have many weapons on hand. The kid had a pike, but we took it away, and your mudpike is confiscated too. And I lost my sword before even coming here."

"Sounds to me like we should go to wherever you're keeping those," you say. "Is Long's staff there, too?"

"Yes. Carma took the slicer, though."

"Then let's go. You know this ship, you lead the way." You're not happy about it, but it's not like you have a lot of choices right now.

Ash heads out, and you follow, with the quiet kid trailing behind. Thankfully, he leads you away from the hole.

"It's actually faster to go the other way, but I think you can understand why I'd take this route," Ash says. He looks around a corner, and suddenly stops.

"What's wrong? You see something?"

"I'm not sure what I'm seeing," he says. Well, that's helpful.

Looks like you'll need to check for yourself.