If we have to move, then grab onto me in some capacity. I can navigate better than you in these conditions.

[He doesn't want to have to move.]

My coat in one hand. Cesar in the other.

[Everything is balanced on a razor thin edge. Alucard can feel the kraken's movements, for she's so large that it's impossible not to, and...if they die like this, at least it was an interesting way to go out.

Alucard reaches out to the mer-creatures again. And again. And again. For an awful twenty minutes, it's the same report. He's there. He's there. He's--]

He's taking the ship's figure head as a prize. If his creatures can haul it up, we're clear.