Things were escalating quickly, to say the least.
While Morgan was busy falling down, Hoshi was transfixed on the new newcomer. "Zac," she said to herself, assuring she wouldn't forget his name. She hung with studious focus to Zac as he explained himself, and shifted her eyes from him to the ship he had arrived in as he proceeded. Hoshi found herself abashedly conflicted on how she felt about him being OK after his crash; on the one hand, if he meant them harm, then there was no way they'd stand much of a chance fighting him off if he even close to full strength. On the other hand, if what he said about his ship's energy core (whatever that was) being able to destroy the Island, then they were fortnuate that he was in a good condition to fix it before it became a problem. As he set himself to work, Hoshi released a self-soothing breath. Sound in mind, she accepted the fact that if he had intent to harm them, he likely wouldn't be taking the time to inspect his ship, and wouldn't have been open to friendly conversation.
She inched closer to the ship, trying to sneak a peak at what Zac was doing to repair his vessel. She looked it over as well, simply in amazement at the fact that such a vehicle even existed. This... this is it. Her heart started racing. She backed away just a few inches when Zac eyed the raft behind her. She too looked at it, surprised that it hadn't been damaged by any debris from Zac's wild landing. She returned a sharp, offended scowl when he commented on how ineffective a raft would be at reaching other worlds. The scowl quickly gave way to more sullen and defalted frown. "It was better than nothing," she said, dejectedly, and just barely audibly, bowing her head down. The wieght of her own doubts about the project being affirmed hurt, though only to the extent of feeling like they had wasted their time and effort on something that wouldn't have outright failed at best, or gotten them killed at worst.
"Brrrh." She shivered in a sudden cold. Raising her head, she scanned the area and immediately saw Alias dropping the ice-cold conch shell. A half-gasp, half-scream forced from her vocal cords when icy spikes pierced out around Morgan. When the blunt protrusion of ice gut-punched Alias, Hoshi sprung towards her friend nearly as quickly as the ice had formed. She arrived at his side and helped him back to his feet as he shrugged off the pain.
"He's right," she said, confirming Alias' statement to Zac. "We don't know how Morgan and Alias got here, or how my br-- Kitsu vanished. There definitely weren't any ships like yours around on any of those days though. We'd have seen something. So there had to have been another way. But," on the 'but' she looked at Alias, then the raft, then back to Alias. "You say our raft wouldn't get us far. I believe you. I... I was afraid of that." She looked longer at Alias. "Better we know now than after we've already set sail, yeah?"
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