Sky-Island Hideout Drifts Into Chaos

Roy Hazama

Cindy, give me the stability readout. Those stabilizers can't handle another quake.

Cindy Hazama

Within acceptable parameters. But we're riding the edge, bro.

Roy Hazama

Orenji! Three degrees left—gently!

Orenji

I know 'gentle,' little smith. I've handled eggs smaller than your ego.

Cindy Hazama

She actually listened. That's... new.

Roy Hazama

I don't have an ego problem!

Roy Hazama

Perfect. Our island-sized hideout is officially monster-proof and mercenary-ready.

Cindy Hazama

Until the next time you improve the defenses and blow half the island into orbit.

Orenji

Speaking of orbit... did anyone account for atmospheric drift? We're drifting east.

Roy Hazama

...We never installed navigation thrusters.

Cindy Hazama

Congratulations, captain. Your monster-proof island is now a very expensive, very slow meteor.

Roy Hazama

Come on, come on... redirect power from secondary coils... Cindy, I need atmospheric pressure readings NOW!

Cindy Hazama

0.8 bars and dropping. We're losing buoyancy fast.

Orenji

Little smith... your island is heavier... than it looks...

Cindy Hazama

Roy, if I cross-circuit the primary buffer, we might get thirty seconds of stable flight!

Roy Hazama

Do it! Orenji, brace for emergency landing protocol!

Roy Hazama

Yes! Primary buffer holding... we're level! Cindy, you're a genius!

Cindy Hazama

Remind me to bill you for the cardiac arrest.

Roy Hazama

Damage report: minor scorching on stabilizer three, hairline fractures in the buffer coils. Nothing we can't patch in a day.

Orenji

Your definition of minor is when the island doesn't explode?

Cindy Hazama

Speaking of definitions, we now have exactly forty-three minutes before the next atmospheric pressure drop. Might I suggest installing those navigation thrusters?

Roy Hazama

...We still don't have navigation thrusters installed.

Orenji

Forty-two minutes until we become a very expensive, very PRECISE meteor.