Serphia's eyes seethed with ire as she glared down at the little High Elf in her hood.

"What exactly is it that you are getting at, High Elf?" Serphia asked with a contemptuous tone, clearly already beginning to regret accepting Sharon's request for him to accompany her. Perhaps it would have been better to leave him with Rithrynn, or even better; in Rithrynn's butt!

"Huh?" Lithrielle shook her head at Alissah's sudden inquiry, tilting her head slightly as she looked back at the human.
"I don't know what you mean. The boat's perfectly fine! Just because it was on land when we took it doesn't mean that there was anything wrong with it. I'm sure it's just your... yikes! We're taking in water!"

"Ssssshhh, quiet down?"

"What?"

"Water!?"

"We're sinking?!"

Although Lithrielle, and perhaps Alissah, had been the first to notice it, it soon became apparent to the rest of the sentinels in the boat that there was indeed beginning to form a pool of ice cold water around their feet in the bottom of the boat. And that they were indeed about to sink!

"Sssshhhheeeei... we need to remove the excess weight!" Lithrielle quickly reasoned, suddenly grabbing for the human, Alissah. Rithrynn barely had time to intervene before Lithrielle had the chance to attempt to throw Alissah off the boat by grabbing both of them!

"No! Just row faster! We can make it!" Rithrynn argued, pointing towards the rocks by the reef that were only a few dozen feet away!

"What is going on back there?" Serphia's voice sounded all of a sudden, the Captain having turned around to look back to see what the commotion was all about. For a moment, her gaze rested on Lithrielle, then on the pool of water forming below them in the boat, and then back up at the almost petrified Lithrielle.

"Ehm... "

"I thought you said this boat was in perfect condition!"

"I... "

"We need to get to land!" Rithrynn intervened yet again, waving her arms in front of her Captain to get her attention! 

Serphia, having little desire to swim, suddenly threw herself further back in the boat, pushing Rithrynn and Alissah to either side while simultaneously sitting on top of the frozen Lithrielle who had failed to move. Grabbing both of the oars while planting her feet in the wooden frame of the boat, Serphia began to row ferociously! As a result, the speed of the rowboat was immediately multiplied by no less than three, as they raced past the other rowboat towards the shores of the reef!

With no attempt to break, the rowboat crashed onto the rocks; launching itself a couple of feet up into the air before landing onto the reef itself! 
The amount of seawater that had gathered at the bottom of the boat was quickly drained now as they were on land, and the sentinels, slightly stunned after the abrupt landing; departed the rowboat on either side.

"Are you guys okay?" Sounded the voice of the other landing craft as the second group of sentinels alongside Smokey reached the shore of the reef shortly behind them.

"We're fine!" Rithrynn was quick to answer, happily jumping off the rowboat while giving Lithrielle who was currently sporting Serphia on her lap an angry look.

"I... sorry, mistress!" Lithrielle gasped as Serphia rose up from having used her as a seat.

"You are lucky we've barely just begun our mission!" Serphia commented, before reaching an arm out to pull Lithrielle up and promptly threw her off the boat and onto land with a crash!

Stepping onto the rocks of the reef herself, departing the rowboat in a much more graceful manner; Serphia rested her hands on her hips as she raised her head to look up at the menacing reef that loomed above them like a colossus. The climb ahead consisted of nothing less than a hundred feet straight-up climb on a jagged, darkened stone wall before they would reach the lowermost part of the scaffolding of the castle's battlements. 

"At least it's dry... " She commented at how the lack of waves had left the reef walls relatively dry. But upon not receiving any immediate response from Sharon, she turned her head to look into the side of her hood, realizing that she couldn't see the High Elf anymore!

" ... High Elf?!"