*BOOM*
Startled from a deep sleep, I rolled out of bed and landed in a heap of bedding and limbs on the floor. As I disentangled myself from my blanket, I looked out of the porthole in my cabin aboard the Vashira to see nothing but black skies. "Oh great, a storm. JUST PERFECT," I grumbled as I pulled my pants on.
*KABOOOM*
My eyes widened in shock. "That was not thunder," I said aloud to myself. As I headed up to the main deck, my nose burned with the acrid sent of smoke. As I arrived on the deck, I saw crewmen scrambling to put out the fires that had begun. It appeared that lightning had ignited several powder kegs that were being moved from one cargo hold to another to make space for more cargo. The rocking of the boat definitely was not making things any easier for them. As I strode across the deck to aid in extinguishing the flames, I heard a shout from behind me. "BRACE YOURSELVES!" one of the crew shouted. I had no time to react before the wave crashed down onto the deck. I had only enough time to realize that I was going to be washed overboard before my head collided with the deck railing. As I fell unconscious, a portal opened beneath me and I drifted through it, unknowingly washing up on the beach of an island soon after.