Dirk listened thoughtfully as Adrian shared his thoughts and views on their situation, glancing to Katie who seemed to have already become like a furry shadow to the marine, then looking back to the man before him.
"I'm glad he turned out to be so cooperative. I'd have to say I'd be a bit honored to have a Lieutenant from the Imperial Japanese Navy working on my ship alongside my fellow American sailors." He sighed a bit and looked to the wooden leviathan that Walker and Mahan were still cruising among with, though they were beginning to head back along the path they'd taken to get here, heading back north towards the Java Sea. "To be perfectly honest with you, Sergeant, I'm scared as well," he said after a moment. "I've already decided that our two vessels will stay with this ship belonging to Miss Kathryn's people wherever that might take us, at least for the time being, but that's likely not a permanent solution. Our bunkers are going to run dry eventually, and from what we've learned from these 'furries' so far they don't really know what oil is, so we have the issue of finding a way of refueling these ships with something. We don't have bottomless magazines either, and though we haven't needed to use much of our ammo yet that won't last forever either, especially if any of those other Japanese vessels got caught in the same thing we did and we just haven't crossed paths yet. And there's something else that keeps nagging at my mind; what the fuck happened to Black Hawk? She was almost untouched when we entered the squall, the Japs were completely ignoring her, and we haven't seen hide nor hair of her since then... I'm sure she's out there somewhere, the question is where?..."
(You feeling up to doing that plotline with some NPCs since we're still rather alone here?)
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