[ as soon as kaveh sees alhaitham's muscles tense like he's getting ready to spring for an attack he's bringing his greatsword up to block. their blades inevitably clash, and kaveh digs his heels into the deck to avoid getting pushed too far back from the momentum, alone. ] Alhaitham, can you even hear me? [ he shoves him away and drives his greatsword into the deck, which has already sustained a lot of damage from their earlier shenanigans. the begins to crumble, and kaveh quickly hops backward to avoid getting dropped into the deck below. he hears the octokitties scattering and several of them abandon the ship, which is great, because that's one less thing he has to deal with. ]

Do you know what you're doing?