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After some impressive efforts and triumphs inland recently then, it's nice to be back home, in the sea. To feel being entirely submerged in water rather than exposed to the air and cooked in the sun. Not feeling hungry or thirsty with such abundance all around you. It's nice to be away, but it's always better to return and-
<span class="mu-s">"-IT'S REAL?!"</span>
From his sitting position on your back while you swim, Faysal yells and clutches his head in shock at the sight through the ocean ahead of him, nearly falling off you for letting go of your fin in the process. Though, like Emil you forcibly rendered him aquatic, gave him gills so he can survive underwater at least.
<span class="mu-s">"I-I thought they were stories... just infidel stories!"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"No... no, something's wrong. This is my domain, there aren't supposed to be trespassers!"</span>
Having departed from the mainland, you figured to make good on your promise and traveled the few days distance back to Atlantis, to show your prisoner. Not the lower ruins this time but those highest up the underwater seamount, the old city center as the (relatively) shallowest ruins.
Although Faysal is overcome with awe from the sight and realization, but even at this distance you notice the ruins are not just ruins. A bustling, thriving undersea settlement with various aquatic inhabitants coming and going, much more to sustain greater life up here in the shallower sea. Although maybe you shouldn't be, your immediate instinctive feeling is anger and upset, not unlike a child seeing another playing with their favorite toy.
Of course you are not a child and old enough, experienced enough to not just act on emotional instinct like this. Really though you just hadn't expected anyone or anything to be here among your ruins, so it's a bit annoying considering how you wanted to show off to your new pet.
>This had been meant only as a little excursion, to show Faysal you weren't to be trifled with. Maybe though this needs correcting... get to the bottom of all this.
>Squatters? In the crown jewel of your ruins? This is worse than the abyssal ruins! Time to rampage!
>Maybe you should just get used to things like this... what a bother it would be to get involved, maybe you could find a more preferable ruined district elsewhere on the seamount?
>[Write-in.]
