X raises his hands, entirely serious. "Of course," he says. "Lead the way, I'm right behind you."

Zephyr certainly acts capable, and he isn't the type to put on bravado just to reassure someone else. As always, X prefers to be a last resort when danger strikes, if he's even a resort at all.

He follows Zephyr down into the second level of the ship, and right away, X can tell it's worse than the deck. For one thing, there's some kind of fungus growing everywhere, and X gives the walls a wide berth to be on the safe side. But more than the potentially poisonous fungus, there's also... well, the general atmosphere. It doesn't feel like the top-of-the-line ship it must have been when it left. It feels like a derelict wreck.

"What visions did you see?" X asks as they move deeper in.