Well... it was on the open sea. There were three ships and a school of mermaids that were running from the navy ship Lictor and the... well, the Kraken.

[Phillip can probably sense the shudder over the network even if he can't see it.]

We met him on a deserted atoll. He was a heavily bandaged man with a sickly dog, and one of the ships took him aboard. I insisted, in fact.