anyway, they say she comes on a pale horse

"Ahoy there! Aionios to Captain Triton?"

It took some thorough shaking at his hand and arm, but eventually Triton began to shuffle back to consciousness.

Minoth grinned. "You can't go drifting off on me now, old-timer!"

"Hey now, I'll- ah, no. I was about to tell ye I'd be going when I liked, but that's just not true, now is it?" His free hand moved to scratch at the back of his neck, just inside his armor's collar - an easy way to mask his non-recognition of where it was he'd woken up.

His companion, meanwhile, sighed in agreement. "Not quite..."