>>5372459>>5372091>>5372046>>5372040>>5372508>Depart from Atlantis for the time being, you need to rest and recover fully. Your home cave, perhaps.What a troublesome venture this all was, returning to Atlantis in the first place. And to think it was all just an effort to try and prove yourself to Faysal. At least you accomplished that task though, he seems more cooperative if nothing else, even if he remains dispirited about his captivity. But otherwise it didn't seem worth it, even with the knowledge of knowing a thriving little civilization moved into the one you destroyed.
There's some promise there, but not for you. Not now, at least, before you can amass more divine power.
<span class="mu-s">"We are not going back?"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"No... we're done here."</span>
So then, the long and difficult swim back to the mainland, made more the difficult by your injured condition. Although being able to swim freely and sate your hunger, you already start feeling better by the time you near the coast.
Interestingly you were followed the distance by some Atlantean sea folk, for what purpose you're not sure, but they give following once you come with a fairly far distance from the mainland. Probably from proximity to the land itself, as you get the feeling if you had instead just remained traveling out in the ocean they still would have kept after you.
Either way though, you can reach the safety of your cave without any worry of being discovered. Arrived for a much needed rest, to help with your recovery.
<span class="mu-s">"All this you found in an old wreck, you say?"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Bah, stop bothering me I'm trying to sleep! Go ahead and examine it if you like, if it will keep you busy."</span>
Unfortunately you don't have such an easy time of it since Faysal remains shackled to you. Crudely repurposed orichalcum chains, you can't just break them with your own strength so will need to find some way to free yourselves later. For now you'll just have to learn to live with it until you can come up with a solution, or otherwise rip Fayal's arm off.
Several days rest here in the cave though, and you should be fine again. Just a question of what you're going to do after that, though for now you're too tired to think or care much about it. The maps you obtained do sit in the back of your mind, but otherwise it's up to you to decide... the sobering experience of your revisit to Atlantis may have changed some things for you, your priorities and such.
>What do you do?